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washingtonindependent.com - 11/20/2008

Recasting the War on Terrorism

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Buoyed by high expectations for the first year of Barack Obama’s administration, an informal coalition of progressive national-security and civil-liberties experts are urging the president-elect to redefine the war on terrorism. Eight years of the Bush administration’s approach to ...

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Progressives Expect Obama to Recast Terrorism Fight
Taylor Marsh — ... Spencer Ackerman has a terrific piece up today that brings together the opinion of an informal coalition of progressive national-security and civil-liberties experts are urging the president-elect to redefine the war on terrorism. The piece at Washington Independent is important, getting some of us on the record on what’s important going forward in fighting terrorism, long before President-elect Obama and his administration are sworn in. ...

Counterterroism After Bush: Towards A Progressive Approach
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed — ... Over at the Washington Independent, Spencer Ackerman has taken the pulse of a number of self-described "progressives" on their opinions for a new path on U.S. counterterrorism policy as the sun sets on the Bush era. Not surprisingly, at the top of the list is a desired rollback of many of the policies put forth by the Bush White House that were rooted in moral rot, such as the use of torture. But there's a steady blend of both common sense and innovation put forth in the article. ...

Counterterroism After Bush: Towards A Progressive Approach
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... Over at the Washington Independent, Spencer Ackerman has taken the pulse of a number of self-described "progressives" on their opinions for a new path on U.S. counterterrorism policy as the sun sets on the Bush era. Not surprisingly, at the top of the list is a desired rollback of many of the policies put forth by the Bush White House that were rooted in moral rot, such as the use of torture. But there's a steady blend of both common sense and innovation put forth in the article. ...

Shock of the Day
N/A — ... We are going to be disappointed? I would be, if I wasn’t already some time ago. We will be told campaigning is not the same as governing. The governing principle here presumes those on the left have nowhere else to go.  The war isn’t much of an issue anymore.  The guy who campaigned against people who had bad judgment and the wrong experience now relies on that same judgment and experience. ...