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This September saw the White House’s first half-hearted attempt to swallow its pride and ask the international community for help. After circumventing the United Nations Security Council and ignoring weapons inspectors in the run-up to war??and refusing for nearly five months after the invasion to consult with the General Assembly—Bush returned to the U.N. to rally support. We were pleased that the president recognized—implicitly, if not openly—the errors of his unilateral approach and the need for assistance from an institution he once wrote...
...root, the premises of Padilla and Hamdi are twofold. First, America is either justified in responding to al Qaeda and its allies by invoking the laws of war??as opposed to relying on the criminal-justice system—or it isn’t. Second, our enemies’ terrorist methods are either legal under the rules and customs of war, or they aren’t. No amount of pedantic hairsplitting over “civil rights” and “due process” is going to work if it ignores those awkward...
Combined with increasing use in government documents of a “sensitive” category of research—an undefined term out of use since the Cold War??these restrictions have impelled some research leaders to discuss a “chilling” effect within the academy...
What has surprisingly been given minimal exposure, in comparison, is the fate of the other party in this war??that is, the Iraqis that American troops were sent in to defeat and/or liberate. That is, until recently...
...According to Gogel, when the words “ISRAEL” appeared as the motif of one tile, Art Squatters painted “Palestine” next to it to neutralize the political intonation. But a similar neutralizer for a tile that reads “NO WAR?? is nowhere to be found...