Chronicles Magazine Afghanistan

Tribunals for Terror

Samuel Francis - FEBRUARY 01, 2002

When President Bush signed an executive order on November 13 that authorized the trial of non-U.S. citizens on charges of terrorism before special military tribunals, the response from the political right was almost—though not quite—unanimously...

VIEWS

Nor Shall My Sword Rest in My Hand
Philip Jenkins - FEBRUARY 01, 2002
When the United States government was seeking to retaliate for the terrorist attacks last year, it was not too difficult to name the obvious targets: Afghanistan (of course), Iraq, Somalia, and the rest of the world’s bandit states.
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REVIEWS

The Tarantulas
Curtis Cate - FEBRUARY 01, 2002
Ortega y Gasset once judiciously observed that “Man reaches truth with hands bloodied from the strangling of a hundred platitudes.”
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Cultural Revolutions

A False Sense of Security
Morgan Norval - FEBRUARY 01, 2002
The Taliban’s defeat may give the American people a false sense of security. They may convince themselves that we can vanquish those who launch terror attacks on us with the use of our push-button arsenal and massive airpower, precision...
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Chronicles Magazine Afghanistan

Tribunals for Terror

Nor Shall My Sword Rest in My Hand

The Tarantulas

A False Sense of Security

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