Rights in an insecure world: why national security and civil liberty are complements.(National Security)
American Prospect, The, October, 2004 by Pearlstein, Deborah
ALMOST AS SOON AS THE PLANES CRASHED INTO THE TWIN TOWERS, SCHOLARS, pundits, and politicians began asserting that our most important challenge as a democracy now is to reassess the balance between liberty and security. As Harvard human-rights scholar Michael Ignatieff wrote in The Financial Times on September 12, "As America awakens to the reality of being at war--and permanently so with an enemy that has as yet no face and no name, it must ask itself what balance it should keep between liberty and security in the battle with terrorism."
Long before anyone had a ...
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