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William Pfaff: When laws get in the way of torture
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2004 06:12:13 -0400
Begin forwarded message: From: John R Levine <johnl () iecc com> Date: June 12, 2004 1:10:04 AM EDT To: Dave Farber <dave () farber net> Subject: For IP? William Pfaff: When laws get in the way of torturePfaff has been writing a syndicated column and many books on international politics for over 25 years. He is quite conservative, in an old-fashioned
sense of the word, rather cynical, and often disconcertingly perceptive. His recent book "Fear, Anger and Failure: A Chronicle Of The BushAdministration's War Against Terroe From The Attacks Of September 11, 2001
To Defeat In Baghdad" collects columns from 2001 to 2003, in which he predicted better than anyone else I know what the reaction to 9/11 would be and how it would play out. His column in today's IHT says what a lot of people are thinking but the domestic media aren't ready to print. William Pfaff: When laws get in the way of torture The paper trail PARIS People like to quote Karl Marx's comment on the two successiveNapoleonic empires, that of Bonaparte himself, and, after 1848, the second
empire of his nephew, Napoleon III. Marx said that it was a tragedy repeated as a farce. The United States has reversed the sequence, so that a few years ago thenation, or at least Congress and the media, was obsessed by President Bill
Clinton's disputed definition of what does or does not amount to sexual congress with a White House intern. The tragedy that has followed the farce is torture as an instrument of American national policy in the cause of spreading democracy.Documents recently obtained by the press reveal White House anxiety about
how to protect President George W. Bush and members of his cabinet from going to prison for ordering, authorizing or deliberately permitting systematic torture of persons in their control, but technically outside formal American legal jurisdiction. The question put to lawyers was howthe president and the others could commit war crimes and get away with it.
... http://www.iht.com/articles/524502.html Regards,John Levine, johnl () iecc com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://iecc.com/johnl, Mayor "I dropped the toothpaste", said Tom, crestfallenly. ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as interesting-people () lists elistx com To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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