THE QUESTION
In the wake of Abu Ghraib, how will these proposed military commissions affect national security? Will this plan expose our troops, now deployed around the world, to similar treatment?
Posted by Amar C. Bakshi on September 9, 2006 5:09 PM
FROM THE PANEL
Another Leap Backward
Lahore, Pakistan - President Bush's proposed legislation to try foreign terrorism suspects before military courts is another quantum leap backwards for rule of law. U.S. interests would be far best served if it upheld its own judicial and constitutional standards, and respected human rights and international humanitarian law, at home and abroad.
Samina Ahmed |
19 COMMENTSSep 13, 2006 at 10:26 AM
Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff is a Senior Director at the German Marshall Fund of the United States, a transatlantic public policy and grant-making foundation. He overseas the fund's policy programs. He was previously the Washington bureau chief of the German newsweekly, Die Zeit.
Guantanamo and My Wehrmacht Uncles
Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff Germany | 37 COMMENTS
Saul Singer is Editorial Page Editor and author of the weekly column “Interesting Times” for the Jerusalem Post. He is the author of Confronting Jihad: Israel's Struggle and the World After 9/11. Before moving to Israel from the Washington area in 1994, Mr. Singer served for ten years as an advisor on the personal and committee staffs of the United States Congress, including the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Senate Banking Committee, and Senator Connie Mack.
Torture, Unlike Terror, Can Be Justified
Saul Singer Jerusalem, Israel | 129 COMMENTS
Masha Lipman is the editor of the Pro et Contra journal, published by Carnegie Moscow Center. Lipman is also an expert in the Civil Society Program at the Carnegie Moscow Center. She served as deputy editor of the Russian weekly newsmagazines, Ezhenedel’ny zhurnal from 2001 to 2003, and of Itogi magazine from 1995 to 2001. She has worked as a translator, researcher, and contributor forMoscow bureau of The Washington Post and has had a monthly op-ed column in The Washington Post since 2001.
U.S. Human Rights Abuses Embolden Authoritarian Regimes
Masha Lipman Moscow, Russia | 35 COMMENTS
