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...reach their own conclusions about human suffering and contemporary existence. Pinsky divides “Gulf Music” into three sections. The first poems, which explore the human capacity to both cause and endure suffering, tackle current events such as Hurricane Katrina and the horrors of Guantánamo. Pinksy adopts a personal tone, asking, “What could your children boast about you?” He then turns to the tendency of history to repeat itself despite man’s pledges to learn from past mistakes. The poems in the second section become extended definitions...
Call it the anti-Guantnamo. Young Saudis are captured in Iraq waging jihad against the American infidels. But instead of being shipped off to a bleak detention camp in Cuba, they are dispatched to a cozy chalet an hour outside the Saudi capital of Riyadh. Technically it's a detention center, but no one is forced to wear an orange jumpsuit or a blindfold. And far from being condemned to solitary confinement, its occupants are free to roam the landscaped courtyard and play Ping-Pong, volleyball and video games...
...course, symbols matter. Court cases dealing with Executive power over Guantnamo detainees will directly affect relatively few people, but such cases help strike the philosophical balance between security and human rights that is relevant to the entire nation and to America's place in the world. As Harvard professor Frederick Schauer pointed out in an influential recent law-review article, however, "most of the court's agenda lies some distance from the nation's." Compounding this is the fact that the court is tackling fewer cases than at any other time in the past half-century. Last term...
...with voting rights, the death penalty, Guantnamo detainees and, in all likelihood, gun control on the docket this term, there will be plenty of fuel to heat up the rhetoric again. The question is whether Roberts and his colleagues will put away their matches...
...picked up by the army during operations. Such labeling allows for the skirting of the Third Geneva Convention, which deals with prisoners of war. Even the Supreme Court has not offered a great deal of clarity on this issue, deciding in 2004 that detaining without trial at Guantánamo was legal, and deciding in 2006 that, in fact, special executive tribunals violated the Geneva Convention. The government’s mislabeling amounts to a deliberate attempt to create legal ambiguity and a screen for the army’s actions...