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...Christmas Eve last year. And just yesterday the Associated Press reported that the State Department has given Blackwater personnel involved in the Sept. 16 incident immunity from prosecution.The State Department recently announced that they would install video cameras in Blackwater convoys to check up on these officers. This action is a step forward, but it is not enough; all private contractors should work under the same legal network that other military officials work under, or at least those of internal State Department officers. It seems inevitable that private contractors are going to play a role in the future...
...debate, stressed the importance of diplomatic resolution to international conflicts. “We have to work within multinational institutions like NATO and the U.N.,” Padilla said. Moarefy too emphasized this approach, advocating for a thorough use of all diplomatic means before taking military action, including open dialogue with leaders such as Ahmadinejad and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. “The whole point of diplomacy is to address issues where we don’t see eye to eye,” Moarefy said. “We need to engage with our friends...
...Gore’s predicament actually represents a transformation in how environmental action, and to a greater extent political activity, is shaped. We’re witnessing a battle between two very different camps: those who believe change must come from the hallways of D.C. and others who think the very opposite—it’s the people, en masse, who will make the difference...
...facet of the world’s climate. We, the larger public, listened to Gore and others like him precisely because they’re not just attention-whores from D.C. Gore’s brilliant maneuvering, based upon meaningful change, proves that a political solution and mass collective action are not mutually exclusive...
...several days later. "I think it was one of the dumbest and most inappropriate things I've seen since I've been in government," Chertoff said. "I have made unambiguously clear, in Anglo-Saxon prose, that it is not to ever happen again and there will be appropriate disciplinary action taken against those people who exhibited what I regard as extraordinarily poor judgment...