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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
Yes, but is partisan the word you're really looking for? I think most employ that term to mean fervent support for a party. That surely isn't proved by your evidence. Do you mean is she a Democrat?
Ace return my man.
"To to, or not to too, that has always been my question."
I often get that one wrong. About long sentences though, you reveal yourself in their usage to be more the lawyer than the journalist. This of course is fine but...
I was enjoying the sentence but it was getting harder to track the longer it went on. The crack that might help is to write sentences as if actors had to repeat them. Then you get a better idea where both the pauses for breath as well as reflection might better go. You'll know as well, if not better than I do, that the general rule is the shorter the sentence the stronger the point made.
But what the heck! I couldn't write as much as you and it be so readable without spending twice as much time editing it down. Perhaps time to have a look at the layout though? Reading your column is like reading a printed bog roll or a Sanskrit pray wheel. Fucking odd!
Lab2112: I think it's pretty clear to anyone who's read his series of articles on the Israel-Palestine conflict that Greenwald condemns both sides.
What he's "dismissive" about is Israel's pathetic victim narrative, and the United States' blind allegiance to it.
What ratio of dead Palestinian babies to dead Israeli babies would prompt you to consider the conflict from the Palestinians' side? 1:100? 1:1,000,000?
Your post is the perfect validation of the truthfulness of Glenn's writing.
By the way, here's a beautiful illustration of the reality of conflict, and the fanaticism of the support-Israel-at-all-costs crowd: http://tinyurl.com/9dwso6
First, let me bow to your great wisdom.
Secondly, let me respond to your naivete. Even if Glenn is correct that Ms Johnsen can, in theory, bind the president, the simple truth is that, what Obama giveth, he can take away. She went to Yale. She knows that and will almost certainly act act accordingly. Tis the way of the world. Power corrupts.
By the way, don't you think it is rather ironic that a woman who has devoted much of her career to ensuring that a woman's right to terminate a pregnancy (which results in what many thoughtful people consider a deadly assault on the most vulnerable of all human beings) is going to step in and prevent the US from being mean to non-citizens suspected of terrorist activities.
Sounds like a mantra for the radical left; Kill the babies; Coddle the terrorists.
Fortunately, Mr Obama is smarter than his critics on the left. Which is why he can throw them a milkbone and accomplish his goals without a bunch of left wing critics getting in the way.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/05/opinion/05bolton.html?_r=2
By insisting on the proper constitutional process for treaty-making, Republicans can join Mr. Obama in advancing a bipartisan foreign policy. They can also help strike the proper balance between the legislative and executive branches that so many have called for in recent years
Har har, funny joke coming from John "no treaty" can prohibit the president from crushing children's testicles Yoo.
6. Apologists for the Bush Administration’s program of extraordinary renditions regularly claim that the program existed and was developed under the Clinton administration. How was the program different under Bush? - Horton
Beginning with the George Washington Administration, it was always understood that the transfer of an individual from this country to another could not be done unilaterally by the President. Authority was needed either by an extradition treaty or by statute. There are cases of the United States going to another country and forcibly abducting someone and bringing them here, but the purpose was always bringing the individual for trial with all the procedural safeguards available. As late as 1979, the Office of Legal Counsel stated: “The President cannot order any person extradited unless a treaty or statute authorizes him to do so.”
During the Clinton administration, FBI Director Louis Freeh and other executive officials testified about the use of force to abduct terrorist suspects for the purpose of bringing them to trial. Rendition was used to return suspected international terrorists to stand trial in the United States. Other officials, including CIA Director George Tenet, spoke of rendition as bringing suspects “to justice.” It was unclear whether that meant return to the United States or to other countries for trial. Michael Scheuer, who supervised the abduction of suspected terrorists, testified that the purpose was to take men off the street and seize evidence. The men were not brought to the United States. They were transferred to other countries only if charges had been brought against them.
The purpose of extraordinary rendition under the Bush Administration was quite different. It was not to bring someone to trial. It was to interrogate them first under CIA custody and then transfer them to another country for interrogation and torture. The Bush Administration said it would seek “assurances” from the countries that torture would not be used but conceded that it could not control what other countries did. In lawsuits challenging extraordinary rendition, the administration regularly invokes the state secrets privilege. - Fisher
About the pain in the butt wannabe editors:
You obviously enjoy the art of writing, and you rebutted the nonsense that sentences must be forever short or compact or whatever. Just for fun and out of intellectual curiosity, read this short story called The Vertical Fields by Fielding Dawson:
The following is the not at all short first sentence.
On Christmas Eve around 1942, when I was a boy, after having the traditional punch and cookies and after having sung 'round the fire (my Aunty Mary at the piano), I, with my sister, my mother and my aunts, and Emma Jackman and her son, got into Emma Jackman's car and drove down Taylor Avenue to church for the midnight service: I looked out the rear window at passing houses, doors adorned with holly wreaths, I looked into windows--catching glimpses of tinseled trees and men and women and children moving through rooms into my mind and memory forever; the car slowed to the corner stop at Jefferson and the action seemed like a greater action, of Christmas in a cold damp Missouri night; patches of snow lay on the ground and in the car the dark figures of my mother and sister and aunts talked around me and the car began to move along in an air of sky--at bottom dark and cold, seeming to transform the car, my face, and hands, pressed close to the glass as I saw my friends with their parents in their cars take the left turn onto Argonne Drive and look for a parking place near the church; Emma Jackman followed, and I watched heavily coated figures make their exists, and move down the winter walk toward the jewel-like glittering church--up the steps into the full light of the doorway--fathers and sons and mothers and daughters I knew and understood them all, I gazed at them with blazing eyes: light poured from open doors; high arched stained glass windows cast downward slanting shafts of color across the cold churchyard, and the organ boomed inside while we parked and got out and walked along the sidewalk, I holding my mother's right arm, my sister held mother's left arm (mother letting us a little support her)--down the sidewalk to join others at the warmly good noisy familiar threshold: spirits swirled up the steps into the church and Billy Berthold handed out the Christmas leaflets, I gripped mine.
http://www.classicshorts.com/stories/vrtclfld.html
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
219 Democrats and one Republican join in favor of the legislation, which passed by a narrow margin
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