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...parents claim, he must have been brainwashed. What other reason could there possibly be for a man to take up arms for the Taliban? “Brainwashed” is a tricky word, and in this case an Orwellian semantic ploy to rename aggressors as victims. By their sort of logic, every Islamic zealot captured in Afghanistan is a victim of brainwashing. Not surprisingly, the U.S. government doesn’t seem inclined to accept an insanity defense for al-Qaeda fanatics...
...that's a paper considered friendly to the U.S.-led coalition. Pakistan's Urdu-language papers, Jang and Nawa-i-Waqt, have largely adopted a blame-the-victim approach to Sept. 11. "They regularly point out why some people are angry at America," says Riaz Ahmad, founder of the Pakistani American Congress. "They regularly remind everybody that if you solve the Israel-Palestine issue, those killings would stop...
Swank seems a little lost among them. There's something slightly mousy in her presence; she seems more a victim than a mastermind, a character actress trying to command a star part. Her cohorts pip-pip merrily through the historical flummery, letting their accents do their acting for them. Swank doesn't quite get the joke. Charles Shyer, the director, does. He understands that we're mostly there for the drollery and the decolletage. Every movie season requires a handsomely appointed irrelevance, and his movie fills that need admirably...
...said she would continue to push for a trial period for Universal Keycard Access and would request that an impartial adviser be assigned to every alleged victim of sexual assault...
Hello, my name is B.J. Greenleaf, and I am a victim of network backlash...