The usual bosh is getting into the press about the technological
prowess of U.S. weaponry as deployed against Afghanistan. He's been getting
some great scoops in his New Yorker dispatches, but in this instance,
Seymour Hersh ran some...
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01 November 2001
No sane nation hands to a wartime enemy atomic
weapons set to go off within
its own homeland, and then lights the fuse.
Yet as the bombs and missiles drop on Afghanistan, the certainty of terror retaliation inside America...
Yet as the bombs and missiles drop on Afghanistan, the certainty of terror retaliation inside America...
31 October 2001
The left is getting itself tied up in knots about the Just War
and the propriety of bombing Afghanistan. The respected Princeton professor
Richard Falk has outlined in The Nation an...
24 October 2001
"FBI and Justice Department investigators are increasingly
frustrated by the silence of jailed suspected associates of Osama bin
Laden's al Qaeda network, and some are beginning to that say that
traditional civil liberties may have to be...
19 October 2001
A couple of phrases give us useful pointers to the moral and
political intricacies of retribution. The Pentagon is talking about
establishing "killing boxes" around Kabul, where U.S. helicopter gunships
can fire at will. The Pentagon's...
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