Justice Department frightening under Bush, Ashcroft
Last week, the Bush administration began to answer questions about the view of justice it is espousing. The answers were duplicitous at best.
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Last week, the Bush administration began to answer questions about the view of justice it is espousing. The answers were duplicitous at best.
Attorney General John Ashcroft has been in rare form since Sept. 11. Unsatisfied with arresting more than 1,200 individuals under a cloak of secrecy to find out what knowledge they have of terrorist activities, Ashcroft's Justice Department has begun to question 5,000 Middle Eastern men throughout the country.
Politics can be so much fun. Take, for instance, the ongoing soap opera that is Wisconsin's legislative caucus scandal.
The U.S. economy will eventually rebound from its current recessed doldrums, but that resurgence will have little, if anything, to do with the economic stimulus package that is working its way through Congress.
Oh, the precarious balance between rationalization and rampant emotions. The argument is not going to go away; it will probably stick with us through our lifetimes. Why did Sept. 11 happen?
Yet another round in the great globalization debate is just around the corner. Monday, the World Trade Organization's director-general, Mike Moore, announced that representatives from the WTO had agreed to continue with the next round of global talks as originally planned, with a meeting scheduled for Nov. 9 to 13 in Doha, Qatar. Doha was originally selected as this year's meeting site in part because it was thought that fewer protesters would crash the party than in Seattle.
Shortly after the U.S.-led air strikes on Afghanistan began, Mohammad Sarwar, the sole Muslim member of Britain's Parliament, told the BBC that backing the Northern Alliance was a horrible mistake.
We are traveling blindly. Perhaps our nation's leaders know what the future holds; perhaps they have everything mapped out like a grand game of chess. Perhaps they expected Iran's reaction to our attacks on Afghanistan. Perhaps they knew exactly where anti-U.S. rallies would begin in Pakistan and, certainly, they are counting on Pakistan military leader General Pervez Musharraf keeping it all under wraps. Perhaps coincidentally, we cannot possibly know, a few days before we began bombing Afghanistan, Musharraf put a leading pro-Taliban cleric under house arrest. He is watching his back pretty closely, reordering the power structure in Pakistan, shuffling two generals that assisted in his 1999 coup and the head of the Pakistan's intelligence agency'all of whom have links to Islamic militant groups and the Taliban'into lesser roles.
Despite my belief that military intervention should always be the last resort in any conflict, I found it heartening to read Friday's news reports that Green Berets and Navy Seals had been operating in Afghanistan sporadically for nearly two weeks.
The prism through which America views the world was invariably changed by the events of Sept. 11. As our battle against terrorism unfolds, we should pause to consider whether our new consciousness of suffering at home will lead us to a deeper concern for potential suffering and violence elsewhere.
It was Barry Alvarez's kind of game.
I feel numb. How did this happen? Why did this happen? How could people hate this much'have this little respect for life?
The United States has established a miserable pattern in foreign policy. With Israel, the United States recently pulled out of the U.N. Conference on Racism because of language in a draft accord that demonized Israel as an apartheid state and equated Zionism with racism. The United States and other western nations also objected to the focus on slavery reparations that many African nations were pushing for.
Though little acknowledged, Aug. 14 the International Monetary Fund released a report, the Title IV Consultation with the United States, that disputed the White House's budget projections. It came to extremely different conclusions on how much the tax cut will cost the nation annually and what the U.S. surplus projections should be.