In Bush’s view, an enemy combatant is anyone he suspects of involvement with terrorism, the battlefield is the entire world, and the cessation of hostilities occurs when terrorism has been decisively vanquished—i.e., never. The upshot is that the president has the unilateral, unreviewable authority to grab legal residents and American citizens off the streets of the United States and imprison them indefinitely.
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Along those lines, you should encourage Gene to turn his book proposal into an actual book as quickly as possible.
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