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...well-functioning society. (He notes a certain irony in the fact that first amendment rights are most limited when they are most necessary.) His arguments against our military intervention in Afghanistan appeal both to our practical sense—the idea that our “war on terrorism?? did not succeed in any of its stated goals—and to our moral character—that Afghan civilian deaths have been called “collateral damage,” the same term used by Timothy McVeigh to describe children who died in the Oklahoma City...
President Bush widened the “war on terrorism?? Tuesday, freezing the assets of the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF), a Texas-based Muslim charity he claims is part of the Hamas terrorist financial network...
...bill would prevent the government from issuing visas to students from countries considered sponsors of terrorism??Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Libya, North Korea, Sudan and Syria–unless the applicants are deemed to not “pose a threat to the safety or national security of the United States...
...network it depends on for support. Our most elusive enemy is our own short-sightedness and the unrelenting anxiety that causes it—a very human anxiety born from months in the crosshairs of merciless predators. Although soldiers with automatic weapons might make us feel less vulnerable to terrorism??even though we aren’t—what’s the point of defeating one lifestyle of fear while we cultivate another...
President George W. Bush’s recent executive order on the “Detention, Treatment and Trial of Non-Citizens in the War Against Terrorism?? represents an extremely troubling shift in priorities on the part of the administration. The order, which provides for the trial of non-citizens suspected of terrorism by military tribunal rather than in a court of law before a jury of their peers, strikes at the very foundation of the American legal system. Its ramifications could render illegitimate the coming decade’s most important exercises of justice and would blacken...