There are perhaps only two people in America who think that the current level of commitment is sustainable by the United States and its allies, and they left office last January.
Terrorism remains central to Israel's explanations of many of the most morally problematic of its policies, including the siege of Gaza and restrictions on Palestinians in the West Bank.
We live in a world of nightmares. But understanding these worries -- the myriad ways the world could end -- and hedging against them is the way to turn the fear into greed, the nightmare into a dream.
Scarcely in its history has the United States entertained such a shabby and shamelessly politicized travesty of justice as the Military Commissions.
The Intelligence Division's lone wolves appear to have mishandled the investigation into New York's first known major terrorism threat since 9/11.
Terrorists, who came to America with high hopes of destroying it, have found it difficult to find any terrorist-related work due to the hard economic times.
Ted Kaczynski will spend the rest of his life in the supermax prison in Florence, Colorado. Some admirers have cast him as an eco-anarchist, fighting to protect nature. This seems a romantic fiction.
One thing is certain, authorities have powerful tools to get people off the streets in the array of statutes that they have at their disposal. They also have an extraordinarily difficult job of balancing their obligations.
Police dealt a blow to Indonesia's main terrorism network on Thursday after confirming the death of top-ranked Islamic militant Noordin Mohammed Top following a raid on a home in Central Java.
By the time the Goldstone mission "considered" Israel's entry into Gaza, the result was a foregone conclusion. Context? No way. Balance? Forget about it. The verdict? Already in
Following Judge Kollar-Kotelly's ruling, the DOJ did not indicate whether it will appeal the decision, but I sincerely hope that the government follows the judge's advice and repatriates al-Rabia.
To my mind, President Obama missed a golden opportunity to bring 17 Uighur prisoners to the U.S. in his early days in office.
Let's shift the balance of power in the cockpit back to humans. As MIT's R. John Hansman explains, "Less is more." Dumb cockpit computers down; let pilots be pilots
The United States created, one way or another, the mess that is Ghezali. And what a mess it is.
A new book, City of Gold: Dubai and the Dream of Capitalism paints a very different picture of the events and politics leading up to the nixing of the Dubai ports deal.
The Obama administration is following Bush's lead by unilaterally rewriting the Geneva Conventions, presumably to allow it to continue exploiting prisoners of war for their supposed intelligence value.
Let's drop the childish game of scaring ourselves with the likes of high school drop-out Jose Padilla and similarly I.Q. challenged riff-raff. In doing so, we are behaving like kids who conjure monsters.
Even if the government took over 100% of healthcare, owned every medical facility, hired every medical professional, and owned all of the equipment, the cost still would come nowhere near what we have spent and continue to spend on the Iraq war.
Osama bin Laden, if that was him (doesn't matter if it was just a garden-variety US-hater), pointed out that the president is vulnerable. What did he mean?
One has to wonder just how appealing the din of American democracy is when heard from across the ocean. Rather than a "Beacon of Hope" it may seem more like a third rate "Battle of the Bands."
The text of Manhattan D.A. Robert Morgenthau's September 9 Wall Street Journal op-ed, with rebuttals for 21 incorrect statements in the text.
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I guess this president actually reads the intelligence briefings.
Craig Silverman,
BRILLIANT article!!! BRILLIANT!!!!
Articulate, brilliant and SPOT ON!
Yet, not a single kind word of acknowledgement from the right wing wack jobs....The more I observe their (right wing wack jobs) behavior, the more I believe it is simply based upon racism
So what sort of appeal is he going to be able to mount as the result of having had incompetent counsel? And what testimony will get thrown out as a result.
I want justice, but I also want this guy to have a competent attorney so he doesn't walk in the end.
You're scarin' me.
If the guy keeps his lawyer ... that's his problem. Hard to bring a case of incompetent lawyer when YOU KEEP that lawyer on.
President Obama doesn't dance on his accomplishments, so therefore, many thinks he's doing nothing. The Media works very hard to sweep his achievements under the rug, and twist and spin to suit the hate party.
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