Viewpoints, December 22, 2009

	What Do the Nazis Have to Do With Afghanistan?  by Laurie L. Calhoun
	The Best Argument for the Afghan War – and What's Wrong With It by Jon Wiener

	Making More Terrorists in Yemen  by Glenn Greenwald
	GOP Hawks Love Obama's War Talk  by Jack Kenny

US News: Supreme Court Guts Due Process Protection

After hearing passionate arguments from the Obama Administration, the Supreme Court acquiesced to the president’s fervent request and, in a one-line ruling, let stand a lower court decision that declared torture an ordinary, expected consequence of military detention, while introducing a shocking new precedent for all future courts to follow: anyone who is arbitrarily declared a “suspected enemy combatant” by the president or his designated minions is no longer a “person.” They will simply cease to exist as a legal entity. They will have no inherent rights, no human rights, no legal standing whatsoever — save whatever modicum of process the government arbitrarily deigns to grant them from time to time, with its ever-shifting tribunals and show trials. read more at Supreme Court Guts Due Process Protection

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