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The two faces of terror.(Agora (continued): Military Commissions Act of 2006)
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American Journal of International Law
- Article date:
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April 1, 2007
- Author:
- Farer, Tom J.
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To know where we are, we have to see ourselves from a distance. Otherwise the remarkable becomes commonplace.
I see the Military Commissions Act of 2006 from a temporal distance, specifically from the era of state-terror regimes in Latin America during which I served for eight years (1976-1983) as a member of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, a principal arm of the Organization of American States (OAS). Those were the years in which governments scattered across the South American continent and the Central American isthmus, anticipating the policy views announced by United States Vice President Dick Cheney in an interview on "Meet the Press" in 2001, decided to ...