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...instructor at France's war college and a colonel in the reserves. I agree with law professor Ruth Wedgwood that the detained al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters are not combatants as defined by international law and should not be treated as POWs [VIEWPOINT, Feb. 4]. I am sure the U.S. Army respects these detainees and is treating them in compliance with the laws governing the conduct of war. I am also sure the Army knows they are fighters who have a fascination with death. Even so, a just trial and good treatment must preclude the death penalty. Their punishment must...
...Viewpoint: Olympic Intrigue...
...Viewpoint: Olympic Intrigue...
...magazine editor, I wasn't all that surprised to read Roger Rosenblatt's take on historian Stephen Ambrose's brush with plagiarism [VIEWPOINT, Jan. 21]. The vast amounts of information available on the Internet provide endless opportunities for free "cut-and-paste" material. In one year, my publication caught three writers who had lifted--almost directly--Internet information for use in their stories. One rather well-known writer had the audacity to appropriate an exquisite passage from the works of Isak Dinesen and weave it into his own story--unattributed, of course. Plagiarism never fails to induce a feeling...
Like Charles Krauthammer, I was surprised and pleased by the speed of the victory over al-Qaeda and the Taliban [VIEWPOINT, Dec. 24]. However, I was dismayed by Krauthammer's triumphalist rhetoric, which at times approached jingoism. Such language can only fuel the still smoldering fires of hatred of the U.S. Our bombs have changed no one's world view but our own. The Taliban soldiers who switched sides will again disappear into the mountains. The Arab street is quiet only because those who filled it a few weeks ago are home nursing their wounds. For a small but important...