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...refusal by prominent US government officials to label the events at the Abu Ghraib prison as “torture” was terrible—yet all too predictable. The chosen alternative, “abuse,” dismisses what occurred between torturer and victim, aggressor and prey. The infamous National Security Strategy document of September 2002, which championed pre-emptive attacks, worked analogously. The text avoids mention of human rights but rather sanctions “human dignity,” which it loosely defines. This slippery concept lacks the half-century of experience and authority that...
...newspaper Ha'Aretz quoted Cipel's lawyers Alan Lowy and Rachel Yosevitz as saying that Cipel is heterosexual and that there was no affair. At a rain-drenched press conference in Manhattan on Friday, Lowy read a statement from his client portraying the Governor as something of a sexual aggressor. "While employed by one of the most powerful politicians in the country, New Jersey Governor McGreevey, I was the victim of repeated sexual advances by him," the statement said. "When I finally dared to reject Governor McGreevey's advances, the retaliatory actions taken by him and members of his administration...
...Column, Klein stated that "The Republican strategy this year appears to be hardball." But for nearly four years the Democrats have barraged Bush with name calling and personal attacks. I can't understand how anyone can consider the President the aggressor in the current partisan unpleasantness or how Kerry's below-the-belt blows are counterpunching. It's like blaming the victim. ROBERT WATERS Des Moines, Iowa...
...tactically debate the merits of Israel’s recent attack is one thing. But to cry out against Israel as the sole aggressor in this storied conflict is just wrong...
VIETNAM WAR Battlefield Protests Troops saw the quagmire before their leaders did. In 1965 a lieutenant was court-martialed for marching in a protest with a sign calling President Johnson a "fascist aggressor...