by Charles Cameron | Sep 8, 2015 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — short and sweet ] . Everyone here knows that we are in a conflict with Islamic extremism. Everyone here knows that strategic outweighs tactical success. And most everyone here knows that Ali Soufan is one of the key voices on that topic...
by Charles Cameron | Apr 24, 2015 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — taking a very brief break from Bach once in a while — but Kanye? ] . In what I’d term a DoubleQuote in the Wild, Dr John Horgan uses a simple textual and visual juxtaposition to good effect: America is a land of contrast…...
by Patricia Lee Sharpe | Dec 18, 2014 | Monitor
By Patricia Lee SharpePinch me!Wake me from this nightmare!Am I really stuck in an America awash in arguments pro torture put forth by fellow Americans proudly proclaiming they’d do it again? Waterboarding. Rectal rapes. Chaining. Hanging. Agonizing stress...
by Patricia Lee Sharpe | Oct 22, 2014 | Monitor
By Patricia Lee SharpeWhen Barack Obama, a constitutional lawyer, took office as President of the United States, his supporters expected that he would act aggressively to reverse his predecessor’s disrespect for civil liberties. Astonishingly, he’s turned out...
by Charles Cameron | Aug 29, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — so IS is using waterboarding? meditating on copycattism as a jihadist strategy ] . ** Here’s the basic news, from Adam Goldman and Julie Tate, Captives held by Islamic State were waterboarded, in the Washington Post today: At least...