Tag Archives: War on Terror

Head Games

My latest for the New Ledger has to do with Dick Cheney and his effect on the Obama Administration.

My Pledge To You

I promise to be delighted whenever senior members of the Taliban and/or al Qaeda are captured or killed, and not to make the kind of derisive jokes about how “we always seem to be catching or killing the number 2 guy” that were made back when the Bush Administration captured or killed senior members of the Taliban and/or al Qaeda.

Once Upon A Time, Dissent Was Considered The Highest Form Of Patriotism . . .

But no longer. Things are quite different now.

Charles Krauthammer On Civilian Trials For Terrorist Suspects

Look, I would love to think that we could simply resolve all of these issues in a civilian court. But in many cases, we can’t. This isn’t a partisan point, just a realistic one. And Krauthammer explains why:

Lindsey Graham Devastates Eric Holder

Watch:

The Kerfluffle Over The CIA’s Assassination Program

If ever there were a tempest in a teacup . . .

Mark Kleiman’s Specialty: Pounding The Table

For the (apparent) sin of agreeing with him, I’ve been subjected to yet another round of table-pounding by Mark Kleiman, who is deeply upset that I have written something mildly critical of his political golden calf. The effort to criticize is more amusing than accurate, but that is par for the course from Kleiman.

I Didn’t Vote For Barack Obama . . .

Which means, I don’t have have the scales fall from my eyes over the President’s decision to claim “post-acquittal detention power.”

Miranda Rights for Terrorists? Neighborhood Watch on Terror

By broadening the extraconstitutional Miranda holding and all of the rights it promises to encompass men who are definitionally committing war crimes by pretending to be noncombatants while fighting the United States, the Obama Administration is teaching these men that a criminal process is underway in which they will be cared for, represented, and have a much higher likelihood of returning to the field of battle.

- March 19, 2010 -

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