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>From: "Boyle, Francis" <FBOYLE at LAW.UIUC.EDU>
>To: ANTINATO <ANTINATO at topica.com>, Du-Watch <du-watch at yahoogroups.com>,
>   syndicate2 <syndicate at anart.no>, Pedja <predrat at uns.ns.ac.yu>



>> That the United States of America should uphold and adhere to
>> international law is seen as preposterous, un-American and weak. In a
>> piece titled, "To War, Not to Court," Washington Post columnist Charles
>> Krauthammer wrote: "Secretary of State Colin Powell's first reaction to
>> the day of infamy was to pledge to 'bring those responsible to justice.'
>> This is exactly wrong."
>> 
>> Fox News Channel offered a rare interview with an actual expert in
>> international law, Francis Boyle of University of Illinois, who offered
>> a step-by-step legal process for pursuing the terrorists -- which
>> provoked an indignant Bill O'Reilly to decry "empowering the U.N."  Days
>> later on his show, one of the most watched on cable news, O'Reilly
>> advocated bombing and destroying the civilian infrastructures of
>> Afghanistan and Iraq, followed by attacks on Libya.
>> 
>> Listening to the Krauthammers and O'Reillys and leaping into unilateral
>> action does more than undermine the rule of law. It isolates the U.S.
>> instead of isolating the terrorists. Much of the world will see an
>> excessive or misdirected U.S. military action as a tragic rerun of
>> adventures that have callously injured innocent civilians from Panama to
>> Iraq to Sudan.
>> 
>> And a new misstep will breed ever more anti-American terrorists.
>>                             --------------------------
>> Jeff Cohen is the founder of FAIR, a national media watch group based in
>> Manhattan, and a media critic on the Fox News Channel.
>> 
>> For more on media coverage since 911:   http://www.fair.org
>> 



why is the united states home to so many `Krauthammers and O'Reillys` +?


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