From the Anchoress, who is a brilliant blogger, by the way, and humble about it, which makes her all the more a pleasure to read.
We’ve watched the press pretend to beat their breasts for “not asking the tough questions of Bush” in the time leading up to the invasion of Iraq. That’s a distortion; they [...]
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From the Times Online (UK):
Missiles fired from suspected US drones killed at least 15 people inside Pakistan today, the first such strikes since Barack Obama became president and a clear sign that the controversial military policy begun by George W Bush has not changed.
Security officials said the strikes, which saw up to five missiles slam [...]
Here is an example of the kind of tug-at-the-heartstrings story we hear all the time. Poor, unsuspecting Arab gentleman mistaken for a terrorist by the evil Republican administration that hates brown people is torn from his home and family and subjected to the harsh conditions of the detention center at Guantánamo Bay.
Said Ali al-Shihri traveled [...]
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Joe Carter at Evangelical Outpost expanded on his waterboarding post with another post, “Anthropos and Enemy: Further Thoughts on Waterboarding.”
I was really glad to see this. Normally his posts are very thoughtful and thought-provoking, so the post I linked to yesterday really left me wanting more. In this post, he gives several reasons [...]
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Waterboarding. Even the casual news observer knows that this has been an issue of great discussion lately. I figured that I should take some time to find out more about the debate, as it were. What is waterboarding exactly? Is it torture? Is it necessary? Is there any [...]
