The war against terrorism is too important to be left to the military. Though President George W. Bush cast a wide net in declaring that war, he seems content to leave critical legal and diplomatic questions to military judgment. The Pentagon’s decision to hold certain Taliban and Al Qaeda prisoners at the U.S. naval base in Guantánamo, Cuba, has raised a storm of prot (...)
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The rule of law
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