How America's Wars Are Systematically Destroying Our Liberties
Bring Them Home, Mr. President
Eugene Robinson: "The most dreadful burden of the presidency -- the power to send men and women to die for their country -- seems to weigh heavily on Barack Obama these days. He went to Dover Air Force Base to salute the coffins of fallen troops. He gave a moving speech at the memorial service for victims of last week's killings at Fort Hood. On Veterans Day, after the traditional wreath-laying at Arlington National Cemetery, he took an unscheduled walk among the rows of marble headstones in Section 60, where the dead from our two ongoing wars are buried. As he decides whether to escalate the war in Afghanistan, Obama should keep these images in mind."
http://www.truthout.org/1113097
Welcome Home, War! How America's Wars Are Systematically Destroying Our Liberties
Alfred W. McCoy, Tom Dispatch.com: "In his approach to National Security Agency surveillance, as well as CIA renditions, drone assassinations, and military detention, President Obama has to a surprising extent embraced the expanded executive powers championed by his conservative predecessor, George W. Bush. This bipartisan affirmation of the imperial executive could 'reverberate for generations,' warns Jack Balkin, a specialist on First Amendment freedoms at Yale Law School. And consider these but some of the early fruits from the hybrid seeds that the Global War on Terror has planted on American soil."
http://www.truthout.org/1113096
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bush+legacy
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=bipartisan
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=imperial
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Afghanistan
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=executive+power
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Global+War+on+Terror
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=National+Security+Agency
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=surveillance
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=rendition
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=detention
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=drone
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=assassination
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jack+Balkin
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Eugene+Robinson
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Alfred+W.+McCoy
Eugene Robinson: "The most dreadful burden of the presidency -- the power to send men and women to die for their country -- seems to weigh heavily on Barack Obama these days. He went to Dover Air Force Base to salute the coffins of fallen troops. He gave a moving speech at the memorial service for victims of last week's killings at Fort Hood. On Veterans Day, after the traditional wreath-laying at Arlington National Cemetery, he took an unscheduled walk among the rows of marble headstones in Section 60, where the dead from our two ongoing wars are buried. As he decides whether to escalate the war in Afghanistan, Obama should keep these images in mind."
http://www.truthout.org/1113097
Welcome Home, War! How America's Wars Are Systematically Destroying Our Liberties
Alfred W. McCoy, Tom Dispatch.com: "In his approach to National Security Agency surveillance, as well as CIA renditions, drone assassinations, and military detention, President Obama has to a surprising extent embraced the expanded executive powers championed by his conservative predecessor, George W. Bush. This bipartisan affirmation of the imperial executive could 'reverberate for generations,' warns Jack Balkin, a specialist on First Amendment freedoms at Yale Law School. And consider these but some of the early fruits from the hybrid seeds that the Global War on Terror has planted on American soil."
http://www.truthout.org/1113096
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bush+legacy
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=bipartisan
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=imperial
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Afghanistan
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=executive+power
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Global+War+on+Terror
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=National+Security+Agency
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=surveillance
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=rendition
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=detention
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=drone
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=assassination
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jack+Balkin
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Eugene+Robinson
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Alfred+W.+McCoy
rudkla - 14. Nov, 09:16
