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Reason
June 2005
Tim Cavanaugh |
Rummy in the Dock A new lawsuit against Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld isn't likely to bring justice for prisoners abused at Abu Ghraib and other military prisons, but it may help resolve the controversy over who's accountable for the torture.   |
Parameters
Autumn 2005
Gerard P. Fogarty |
Is Guantanamo Bay Undermining the Global War on Terror? U.S. policy in Guantanamo Bay is providing fuel to a rising global anti-Americanism that weakens U.S. influence and effectiveness, as well as denies the U.S. the moral high ground it needs to promote international human rights in the future. |
Parameters
Autumn 2005
Thomas E. Ayres |
"Six Floors" of Detainee Operations in the Post-9/11 World In the aftermath of 9/11, some have called for a ruthless, `gloves-off' response that would sweep aside legal and political obstacles. Yet the American public's response to the Abu Ghraib abuses provides strong evidence that such an approach is still inconsistent with America's values. |
BusinessWeek
May 31, 2004
Spencer E. Ante |
The Other U.S. Military The private military contractor biz is hot, vast, and largely unregulated. Is it out of control? |
Reason
September 2004
Matt Welch |
Watergate Blowback Watergate taught millions of Americans about the dangers of government operating without sunshine. But Bush administration officials, especially those who lived through the scandal, learned an altogether different lesson -- that checks and balances can be distractions and handcuffs. |
Reason
April 2005 |
Quotes and Sources Quotes from: Robert Bork... Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist... defense attorney Guy Womack... Sources: Congress and blogs... GovTrack... |
Reason
February 2005 |
Soundbite: Torture and Defeat An interview with Seymour Hersh on his new book, Chain of Command in which Hersh draws on his extensive contacts in the intelligence community to paint a disturbing picture of a war managed both immorally and ineptly. |
Reason
July 2009
Jesse Walker |
The Blurry Boundaries of Child Porn Not every illicit image is equally offensive. |
The Motley Fool
May 5, 2004
Seth Jayson |
CACI Under Fire Publicly traded Pentagon contractors, Titan and CACI International, find themselves players in the growing Iraqi prisoner abuse scandal. |
Scientific American
August 2007
Michael Shermer |
Bad Apples and Bad Barrels Lessons in evil from Stanford to Abu Ghraib. |
Reason
March 2006
Cathy Young |
Torturing Logic Who would have imagined immediately after 9/11, that four years later we would be having a debate on whether and how much the United States should torture prisoners. |
Wired
April 21, 2008
David Samuels |
Filmmaker Errol Morris Gets to the Truth Behind the Abu Ghraib Photographs Errol Morris talks about his new documentary Standard Operating Procedure which investigates the strange history of the torture photographs taken at Abu Ghraib prison. |
BusinessWeek
April 26, 2004
Bruce Nussbaum |
It's Time To Shelve The Rumsfeld Doctrine Denial is rampant in Washington. There is denial that intelligence mistakes were made in the months and years before September 11. There is denial that foreign policy mistakes were made in the runup to the war in Iraq. |
Parameters
Autumn 2007 |
Book Reviews Kimberly Kagan in The Eye of Command proposes that John Keegan's Face of Battle approach to narrating battles suffers fatal flaws... War Made New by Max Boot examines 500 years of military innovation... etc. |
PC Magazine
September 7, 2004
Sebastian Rupley |
Images Too Graphic for the Net? Men and women strongly disagree about allowing gruesome photos on the Internet. |
Salon.com
September 6, 2002
Asla Aydintasbas |
The Kurdish dilemma Barham Salih, prime minister of Northern Iraq's Kurdistan regional government, talks about the recent attempt on his life, why he wants a regime change in Baghdad and what should happen in the days after Saddam is deposed. |
Reason
June 2006 |
Three Views on Iraq, Three Years Later In May 2003 George W. Bush declared "mission accomplished" in Iraq. A trio of analysts debates the current state of the region: Why I Supported the Iraq War... You Can't Bring Order to the Middle East... Six Facts About Iraq... |
Salon.com
October 11, 2002
William M. Arkin |
Sept. 11 and wars of the world Osama and Saddam pose real threats, but the Bush administration may be too incompetent -- and too arrogant -- to stop them. |
ifeminists
May 26, 2004
Carey Roberts |
Female Virtue Takes a Beating at Abu Ghraib This time around, the ladies couldn't blame their actions on the male power structure. Here was female barbarism and debauchery, all on full-frontal display in the newspapers. |
Popular Mechanics
November 8, 2006
Noah Shachtman |
Rumsfeld Reaction: 4 Policy Battles That Could Shape Our Military When President Bush appointed former CIA Director Robert Gates to the Defense Secretary post today, several of Donald Rumsfeld's pet projects began to enter the political crossfire. |
National Defense
November 2004
Roxana Tiron |
U.S. Takes Step Back, Revisits Rebuilding Plans To recover from serious setbacks in its reconstruction plans for Iraq the United States will need a more flexible strategy. |
ifeminists
June 2, 2004
Ray Blumhorst |
Gender Roles, Survival Instincts, and Procreational Drives in the Combat Zone With Abu Ghraib in Iraq as a backdrop, one wonders if military planners, social scientists, and others have clearly thought out all the ramifications of putting men and women closely together in combat situations. |
Reason
May 2005 |
Soundbite The authors of Governing by Network, Stephen Goldsmith and William Eggers discuss where federal privatization is headed, its role in the Abu Ghraib scandal, and what needs to change. |
