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The Elephant In The Room: Torture And The War On Terror, Michael P. Scharf, Rory T. Hood
The Elephant In The Room: Torture And The War On Terror, Michael P. Scharf, Rory T. Hood
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Forward to the Case Western Reserve University School of Law "Torture and the War on Terror" symposium issue.
American Innocence, Robert N. Strassfeld
American Innocence, Robert N. Strassfeld
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The sad fact is that our relationship to torture and other atrocities is more complicated and less innocent than we or President Bush would like to believe. This article examines that relationship and the ways in which we try to distance ourselves from torture and atrocity. Part II briefly explores our notions of exceptionalism and innocence. Part III then turns to our efforts to evade responsibility for torture and atrocity. First, it briefly discusses ways in which we try to deny our own acts of torture and abuse through rhetorical misdirection and by relegating torture to the shadows. Part III's …
Vietnam War On Trial: The Court-Martial Of Dr. Howard B. Levy, Robert N. Strassfeld
Vietnam War On Trial: The Court-Martial Of Dr. Howard B. Levy, Robert N. Strassfeld
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This Article examines the history of a Vietnam War-era case: the court-martial of Dr. Howard B. Levy. The U.S. Army court-martialled Dr. Levy for refusing to teach medicine to Green Beret soldiers and for criticizing both the Green Berets and American involvement in Vietnam. Although the Supreme Court eventually upheld Levy's conviction in Parker v. Levy, its decision obscures the political content of Levy's court-martial and its relationship to the war. At the court-martial Levy sought to defend himself by showing that his disparaging remarks about the Green Berets, identifying them as "killers of peasants and murderers of women and …