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		<title>Tamerlan Tsarnaev Is Buried in Virginia: Where Other Notorious Criminals Were Laid To Rest</title>
		<link>http://ideas.time.com/2013/05/07/unwanted-bodies-where-terrorists-serial-killers-and-assassins-are-buried/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 18:01:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bess Lovejoy</dc:creator>
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		<title>Terrorists and Mass Shooters: More Similar Than We Thought</title>
		<link>http://ideas.time.com/2013/04/23/terrorists-and-mass-shooters-more-similar-than-we-thought/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 09:45:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher J. Ferguson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The horrific bombing of the Boston Marathon adds to the litany of tragic violence rocking the U.S. and the world. Since the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in December, we’ve seen mass shootings in places from Switzerland to Serbia. Terrorist bombings have hit India, Turkey and remain endemic to the Middle East. We’ve tended to consider these types of acts — terrorism and mass shootings — as distinct. But recent scholarship suggest this dichotomy may be mistaken, a finding that could have significant impact on our approach to homeland security. Previous theories have conjectured that suicide terrorists (those who carry out politically motivated mass violence intending to die in the process) are not actually suicidal in the psychiatric sense. &#8220;Those who planned and perpetrated the acts of 11 September 2001 would not conceptualise the acts as suicide but instead would perceive them as martyrdom, rationally underpinned by a legitimate struggle in a conflict of national and religious dimensions,&#8221; wrote Harvey Gordon, a forensic psychiatrist specializing in the Middle East, in 2002. But Adam Lankford, a professor of criminal justice at the University of Alabama, recently conducted a comprehensive comparison of 81 suicide terrorists and suicide mass shooters who struck in the U.S. from 1990 through 2010 and concludes that the role of politically motivated martyrdom in terrorists may not be as relevant as previously thought. (MORE: The Boston Bombings: Should Cameras Now Be Everywhere?) “For years, the conventional wisdom has been that suicide terrorists are no more suicidal than the average soldier or terrorist who is committed to the cause and willing to risk his or her life to fight for it,&#8221; Lankford writes.&#8221;These explanations largely reject the relevance of personal problems to the behavior of suicide terrorists, preferring to almost exclusively attribute these attacks to group psychology, organizational dynamics, and/or broader ideological movements.” In fact, Lankford argues, apart from the superficial differences in the crimes they perpetrate, suicide terrorists and mass-homicide perpetrators in the U.S. tend to draw from the same pool of mostly male despondent, enraged, grievance-collecting individuals. It’s<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideas.time.com&#038;blog=27622548&#038;post=31558&#038;subd=timeopinions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Tamerlan Tsarnaev and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev</media:title>
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		<title>The Boston Bombing: Should Cameras Now Be Everywhere?</title>
		<link>http://ideas.time.com/2013/04/22/the-boston-bombing-should-cameras-now-be-everywhere/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 09:45:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Cohen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After the death of Tamerlan Tsarnaev and the capture of his brother Dzhokhar, some lawmakers began calling for more public cameras of the sort that were so instrumental in their swift apprehension. Representative Peter King (R-N.Y.,) a member of the House Homeland Security and Intelligence committees, told MSNBC that video cameras in public locations are &#8220;a great law enforcement method&#8221; that &#8220;keeps us ahead of the terrorists who are constantly trying to kill us.&#8221; (MORE: Brother&#8217;s Keeper: Did Older Brother Lure Bombing Suspect into Plot?) It&#8217;s a safe bet that there will be more video cameras coming to cities across the United States. London, which was shaken by a subway bombing on July 7, 2007, now has upwards of one million surveillance cameras. So this is a good time to ask if we should put some limits on the government’s all-seeing eye. The answer should be yes. We should craft our laws to allow images of criminal suspects to be captured in public – but also to make sure that the government does not unduly infringe on the privacy rights of innocent citizens. (MORE: FBI Will Face Questions Over Past Probe of Suspects) The first thing to understand about surveillance video in public places is that there is already a lot of it going on – though it is impossible to know how much. Back in 2006, the New York Civil Liberties Union sent inspectors out to look for street-level surveillance cameras and found nearly 4,500 in Manhattan alone. There are, no doubt, many thousands more today in Manhattan, and countless more in cities and towns and shopping malls across the country. In addition to these government-installed cameras, there are street-facing security cams installed by office complexes, apartment buildings, and retail stores. In the Boston Marathon investigation, law enforcement relied in large part on surveillance video from a Lord &#38; Taylor department store that appeared to show someone dropping off a heavy bag at the bombing site. (Photos taken the old-fashioned way were also important.) (MORE: Bloody Visions: What Would the<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideas.time.com&#038;blog=27622548&#038;post=31542&#038;subd=timeopinions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">This frame grab from a video released by the FBI on April 18, 2013, shows Tamerlan, front, in black cap, and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, in white cap, back right, walking through the crowd before the explosions at the Boston Marathon in Boston, Mass., on April 15, 2013.</media:title>
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		<title>Who&#8217;s Behind the Boston Bombings? Some Initial Clues</title>
		<link>http://ideas.time.com/2013/04/16/whos-behind-the-boston-bombings-some-initial-clues/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 22:42:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jessica Stern</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, after the attack at the Boston Marathon, Boston is a changed city. People are stunned and sad, desperate to know who would attack us and why. The FBI is not ready to tell us much. But there are some clues about what sort of individual or group might be responsible. The type of weapon — a pressure-cooker device — is one important clue. While this kind of bomb has been used around the world, including in the Mumbai attacks of 2006, it was recently promoted in an article titled “How to Make a Bomb in the Kitchen of Your Mom” in the summer 2010 issue of al-Qaeda’s online magazine Inspire. The Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad followed the recipe, though Shahzad’s bomb would have killed many more people than the relatively small bombs in Boston. (MORE: A Marathon Finisher Remembers How It All Sank In) Who might use such a device? The first possibility would be individuals following al-Qaeda’s recipe, imagining themselves to be furthering its goals by carrying out a “do-it-yourself” attack. Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula has been publishing “open-source jihad” instructions and ideas for how to commit low-level terrorist attacks, and Westerners hoping to participate in the “jihad” are urged to carry it out at home. It’s too risky to travel to Pakistan to get trained; jihadist volunteers are too likely to get caught. Instead, volunteers are urged to carry out their own low-level, leaderless attacks. (MORE: From Jerusalem to Boston: Learning to Live With the Threat of Urban Violence) But leaderless resistance actually has its origins in American antigovernment groups, which is the second possibility. The concept was first introduced in the 1980s in a magazine called Survivalist Alert. It was then popularized by neo-Nazis on websites like Stormfront and later picked up by groups affiliated with al-Qaeda. The purpose of leaderless resistance is to evade law-enforcement detection. If small groups, unaffiliated with the movement’s leaders, could act on their own, the virtual organization would be far less vulnerable. This style of organization has been greatly enhanced by the<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideas.time.com&#038;blog=27622548&#038;post=31407&#038;subd=timeopinions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Investigators at the scene on Boylston Street at site of the second bomb explosion, April 16, 2013.</media:title>
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		<title>Criminals and Terrorists Can Fly Drones Too</title>
		<link>http://ideas.time.com/2013/01/31/criminals-and-terrorists-can-fly-drones-too/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2013 12:45:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc Goodman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Americans know their government uses unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), or drones, on military and intelligence missions from surveillance to assassination. But drones are no longer the sole domain of the military, and just as with many new technologies, they can easily fall into the wrong hands. (MORE: Read TIME&#8217;s cover story &#8220;The Rise of the Drones,&#8221; by Lev Grossman) Robotic machines — including drones, which are basically robots that fly — are already policing international borders, exploring deep-sea shipwrecks, repairing undersea cables and vacuuming living rooms. Robots fly, roll, swim and walk. Some carry guns and bombs. Others have superhuman strength, endurance and sensory perception. A future in which they commit crimes may yet seem like the realm of science fiction, but it is closer than you think. Criminal organizations are early adopters of technology, and some have already used UAVs and other forms of robotics to violate the law while reducing their risk of arrest and apprehension. In Latin America, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) has been collaborating with narcocartels to create remote-controlled drug-smuggling submarines capable of transporting 1,800 kilos of cocaine more than 1,000 miles (1,600 km) without refueling. In 2011, an al-Qaeda affiliate named Rezwan Ferdaus planned to launch an attack on the Pentagon and Capitol buildings using a remote-controlled drone aircraft laden with explosives until the FBI intercepted the plot. And just last year, criminals piloted a $600 remote-controlled quadcopter over a Brazilian prison fence to deliver cell phones to the incarcerated, as was also done in a 2009 attempt involving a drone to deliver drugs to prisoners in the U.K. A 50-ft. (15 m) electric fence may keep criminals in, but won&#8217;t keep a UAV drone out. (MORE: Is Washington Overreacting to Zero Dark Thirty?) Flying robots open up new opportunities for crime. Camera-equipped drones can and will be used for everything from the theft of industrial secrets to voyeurism by creepy neighborhood Peeping Toms. Some parents might use drones to follow their kids to school to ensure their safe arrival, but others will exploit the technology to stalk ex-husbands and ex-wives.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideas.time.com&#038;blog=27622548&#038;post=27293&#038;subd=timeopinions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Zero Dark Thirty Is Not Your Usual Hollywood Fare</title>
		<link>http://ideas.time.com/2013/01/24/why-zero-dark-thirty-is-not-your-usual-hollywood-fare/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2013 13:01:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don Mann</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As this week&#8217;s TIME cover story details, the movie Zero Dark Thirty has unleashed a controversy over the extent to which torture, or &#8220;enhanced interrogation techniques,&#8221; were used in the decade-long search for Osama bin Laden. While I can&#8217;t comment on the veracity of the movie&#8217;s portrayal of how that investigation unfolded, I can say that the depiction of the Navy SEALS preparing for the raid on Bin Laden&#8217;s compound and conducting the mission was quite accurate. (MORE: Is Washington Overreacting to Zero Dark Thirty?) To start with, the actors who portrayed the SEALs themselves definitely received some expert guidance in capturing the mentality of the &#8220;team guy,&#8221; from their light-heartedness while waiting for training to begin to the relaxed quiet that came over them after boarding the helicopter to set off on their mission. The mood on the helicopter was almost serene, but this was not dramatic license. That&#8217;s what it&#8217;s like on real missions. Some SEALs catch a bit of sleep, some pray, some go over mental check lists about the breaching that may have to be done, the layout of the residence, or the possibility of a quick reaction force coming up on them during the raid. They seemed somewhat nonchalant, but these guys were more than ready as they had conducted hundreds of similar raids. (MORE: Seven Secrets of Zero Dark Thirty) Once the team landed at the compound, the filmmakers continued to be very accurate. They revealed many of the basic SEAL tactics but did not disclose any sensitive information to the public. The handling of the downed helicopter, for example, as well as how &#8220;non-threats&#8221; (women and children) are treated was very real. Even placing two shots in every dead target to confirm a &#8220;kill,&#8221; getting facial photos of Bin Laden, and finally collecting all the intelligence including files, laptops, and hard drives was dead-on accurate. In the end, for me, Zero Dark Thirty shows the might and reach of the U.S. military and especially the Navy SEALs. Amidst all the debate, let&#8217;s not forget how impressive it<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideas.time.com&#038;blog=27622548&#038;post=27699&#038;subd=timeopinions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is Washington Overreacting to Zero Dark Thirty?</title>
		<link>http://ideas.time.com/2013/01/24/is-washington-overreacting-to-zero-dark-thirty/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2013 12:58:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Bergen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Zero Dark Thirty, the subject of this week&#8217;s TIME cover story, has garnered multiple Oscar nominations, but the movie also has an unprecedented distinction: it is now the subject of a congressional inquiry. Instead of the hushed, well-appointed screening rooms that are their more usual habitat, director Kathryn Bigelow and screenwriter Mark Boal may instead end up on hard wooden chairs being grilled by senators in an over-lit congressional hearing room. That’s because the Hollywood duo gained unusual access to senior officials at the Pentagon and CIA who were deeply involved in the hunt for Osama bin Laden. This access prompted a storm of protests from Republicans such as Rep. Peter King of New York who worried that the resulting movie would be a puff piece for the Obama administration. It is anything but. Once the film was released, the chorus of criticism directed at the movie came not from the right but from those who worried that the film’s lengthy, multiple scenes of the coercive interrogations of a CIA-held al-Qaeda detainee who provided the critical lead that led to bin Laden would give filmgoers the false impression that torture had netted al-Qaeda’s leader. (MORE: The Truth About Torture) In May I published a book about the hunt for bin Laden entitled Manhunt, which was excerpted in this magazine and was turned into a documentary by HBO. As a result, in October, several weeks before Zero Dark Thirty was first released, I was asked to screen an almost-final cut of the movie. I advised Mark Boal that the torture scenes were overdone. While al-Qaeda detainees held by the CIA were certainly abused, they were not beaten into a bloody pulp, as was the case in the almost-final cut. Boal told me that subsequently some torture scenes were “toned down.” (MORE: The Last Days of Osama bin Laden, by Peter Bergen) But there was something else that bothered me when I saw the final cut of the film on the eve of its public release. No matter that Zero Dark Thirty is an excellent movie<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideas.time.com&#038;blog=27622548&#038;post=27717&#038;subd=timeopinions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why I&#8217;m a One-Issue Voter</title>
		<link>http://ideas.time.com/2012/09/19/why-im-a-one-issue-voter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2012 11:45:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rabbi David Wolpe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have never voted in a Presidential election on one issue alone, but I will this year. We all know there are crucial economic and social issues. If you are out of a job, what could be more pressing? There are foreign policy challenges with Russia, China, North Korea and the Middle East. I do not mean to minimize the urgency of these issues. But this year, for me, they must all take a back seat. Although I recently delivered the benediction at the Democratic National Convention, I considered the act religious, not political — a blessing, not an endorsement. My decision this year will be simple: I will vote for whichever candidate seems likelier to stop Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. (MORE: Red Lines, Deadlines and End Games: Netanyahu Turns Up Iran Heat on Obama) There are two words that symbolize the terror of the twentieth century: Auschwitz and Hiroshima. An Iranian bomb threatens to combine them both. It portends the destruction of an entire nation and an entire people in a moment. However hard it may be to imagine such wholesale slaughter, if history has taught us nothing else, it has taught that today’s delusions of madmen can become tomorrow’s reality. The problem is not one person. True, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad describes Israel as an “insult to humanity” and “a cancerous tumor,” and calls for its “disappearance.” But it is equally true that in May, the chief of staff of the Iranian armed forces, Major-General Seyed Hassan Firouzabadi, said: “The Iranian nation is standing for its cause [and] that is the full annihilation of Israel.” And in June, Iranian Vice-President Mohammad Reza Rahimi told a United Nations-sponsored anti-drug conference that the Jews were responsible for the spread of illegal drugs around the world, that the Zionists control the international drug trade, and that they had ordered doctors to kill black babies. (MORE: A Blueprint for Preventing Nuclear Terrorism) Experts from Israel&#8217;s former Mossad Chief Meir Dagan and others point to a genuine concern that Iran would bomb Israel. So<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideas.time.com&#038;blog=27622548&#038;post=22294&#038;subd=timeopinions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Have We Turned A Blind Eye To Domestic Terrorism?</title>
		<link>http://ideas.time.com/2012/08/10/why-domestic-terrorism-is-the-real-threat-facing-america/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Aug 2012 12:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ishaan Tharoor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Among the more off-putting commentary in the immediate aftermath of the attack on a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisc., were the vacuous musings of a number of TV journalists, speculating why the shooter targeted this community. Why did he “have beef with the Sikhs?” one asked. Then came the bemused refrain — Sikhism is different from Islam — as if somehow everything would make more sense had there been six Muslims shot dead on a balmy summer day in Wisconsin. On a lot of levels, though, it doesn’t matter whether the dead were Sikh or Muslim, not least because Wade Michael Page, the terrorist who killed them, probably wouldn’t have cared. Yes, Sikhs, many of whom grow long beards and wear turbans, have faced shameful discrimination in the decade since 9/11 — the unwitting scapegoats of anti-Muslim fervor nationwide. But to Page, an Army vet immersed in a world of far-right hate, the people he shot were brown-skinned and irredeemably &#8220;the Other.&#8221; That was enough to pull the trigger. It’s that ideology that needs to be taken to task, that needs to be front and center of the national conversation. But will it be? (MORE: After the Bloodbath, Oak Creek Comes Together to Mourn) One can imagine how different the reaction would have been had Page been a Muslim-American, and his victims Christian churchgoers. Immediately, we would see grim-faced talking heads pronouncing upon the pathologies of Islam — a whole culture — and the reach of global terror networks. Politicians would have started grandstanding, calling on moderate Muslims to repudiate the radicals in their midst. They would use the incident to justify the extensive monitoring and (possibly unconstitutional) profiling of Muslim-Americans that’s already in place. They would exploit anti-Muslim sentiment to score cheap shots against Washington rivals. They would warn their citizenry to eschew “political correctness” and get smart to the danger of Muslims everywhere “trying to kill Americans” — the very words spoken by Illinois Republican congressman Joe Walsh just days after the slaughter in Oak Creek. But<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideas.time.com&#038;blog=27622548&#038;post=20708&#038;subd=timeopinions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Blueprint for Preventing Nuclear Terrorism</title>
		<link>http://ideas.time.com/2012/03/30/a-blueprint-for-preventing-nuclear-terrorism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2012 10:45:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eben Harrell and Matthew Bunn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week, leaders or senior officials from 54 countries and four international organizations met in Seoul, South Korea for a summit on keeping nuclear weapons and their essential materials out of the hands of terrorists. Today’s terrorists have global reach, so that mission rightly requires a broad international effort. But the United States and Russia possess 95% of the world’s nuclear weapons and most of the world’s weapons-usable nuclear material, and so bear a special responsibility for preventing nuclear terrorism. Unfortunately, both countries missed an opportunity in Seoul – neither committed to major new steps to strengthen nuclear security at home beyond the steps they were already taking, nor did they announced any new joint initiatives. That must change. Russia has the largest stockpiles of nuclear weapons and weapons-usable nuclear material in the world, located in the largest number of buildings and bunkers. Most of the known arrests related to theft or smuggling of highly enriched uranium (HEU)—the easiest material for terrorists to use to make a nuclear bomb—have occurred in Russia or in nearby countries, including the arrest last year in Moldova of a gang of HEU smugglers allegedly working for a Russian businessman. Having recovered from the chaos following the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia has dramatically improved security and accounting measures for its nuclear weapons and materials, with billions of dollars of U.S. help.  But weaknesses remain. In the United States, a U.S Air Force flight that unknowingly carried six live nuclear weapons across the country in 2007 made clear that improvements are needed at home as well. (PHOTOS: Iranians Rally in Support of Nuclear Technology) Cooperation to secure and dismantle nuclear stockpiles has been a pillar of the U.S.-Russian relationship throughout the ups and downs of the two decades since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Recently, disputes over a range of issues from missile defense to intervention in Syria have soured relations. The time has come for Russia and the United States to get past their squabbles and redouble their cooperation to lock down nuclear<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideas.time.com&#038;blog=27622548&#038;post=12518&#038;subd=timeopinions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Vet&#8217;s Perspective on the Afghan Massacre</title>
		<link>http://ideas.time.com/2012/03/23/a-vets-perspective-on-the-afghan-massacre/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2012 14:38:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rajiv Srinivasan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sweat poured down my face as I heard the cracking of bullets over my head. My platoon was making its way back to our remote outpost in the middle of a Taliban-controlled district in Kandahar when machine-gun fire rang out from the east. My soldiers dove behind trees and compounds to take cover and return fire. I slid feverishly into a ditch and called up to headquarters, rolling my eyes at a day that just would not end. As I finished my radio transmission, I saw a little girl about 7 years old kneeling 10 yards down from me. She wore a red shawl over her head with her fingernails digging into her lips, crying frantically. With my left hand on my radio, I took my right hand out of my trigger well and held the girl’s shoulder gently. The fight ended, and I motioned for the girl to run home while she had soldiers out to protect her. When I read about Staff Sergeant Robert Bales&#8217; alleged massacre in Panjwai, just a few kilometers from that firefight, I thought about that little girl. I wonder how any grown man — an American soldier nonetheless — could stare down 11 children and even consider pulling a trigger. It pains me to think that perhaps even some of the children I helped in Kandahar would have been among the victims. My heart fills with hate toward this man, as do most Americans’. (PHOTOS: The Afghan Massacre) But our generation of fighters is lucky enough to live in a society that is at least tolerant of our service members, if not passionately enthusiastic about us. Our military has had several soldiers engage in inhumane acts in combat over the past decade. But for the most part, our culture understands that these isolated incidents don’t represent the 99% of soldiers who are good-hearted people that have served honorably. And if we solely analyze this as an issue of character, then of course I wholeheartedly agree. But the problem is that this incident, and the ones<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideas.time.com&#038;blog=27622548&#038;post=12012&#038;subd=timeopinions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is The Army Responsible for the Afghan Massacre?</title>
		<link>http://ideas.time.com/2012/03/14/is-the-army-responsible-for-the-afghan-massacre/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2012 16:02:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Frederick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the U.S. war effort in Afghanistan already at unprecedented lows, news on Sunday threatened to push U.S.-Afghanistan relations to a new crisis: a U.S. Army staff sergeant stationed in southern Kandahar, a married father of two children, had allegedly shot and killed 16 civilians, including 9 children, during a harrowing house-to-house killing spree. American and Afghan authorities are scrambling to ensure this tragedy does not derail the planned departure of NATO forces in 2014, and it is smart to keep looking forward, but we must also not flinch from looking back as well: every war crime committed by U.S. forces calls for a reassessment and examination into how the tragedy could have been prevented. President Obama has the Pentagon moving swiftly and would &#8220;spare no effort in conducting a full investigation.&#8221; (MORE: Rising Anger over an American&#8217;s Rampage, but Also Fear of U.S. Departure) Let us hope that that’s the case. If the allegations prove true, there is of course nothing that can absolve the soldier of the personal responsibility that is his and his alone for the cold blooded murder of even one innocent life, let alone 16. But let us hope that the military also has the courage, self-confidence and capacity for self-introspection to investigate not just the crime, but the atmosphere—in Army parlance, the “command climate”—in which a crime like this could have taken place. An unsigned editorial in Tuesday’s USA Today said, “In all probability, the weekend slaughter of 16 innocent Afghans by an American soldier will turn out to have been no more preventable than last month’s shooting of five Ohio high school students by a classmate.” But the premise of the comparison is a faulty one: the Army is nothing like general society. The Army is a uniquely hierarchical and regimented sub-society in which its members are, by design, observed and directed by superiors virtually every waking hour of every day. Likewise, a mass shooting in Ohio, while a tragedy, is not something that jeopardizes U.S. national security, while the massacre of Afghan<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideas.time.com&#038;blog=27622548&#038;post=11508&#038;subd=timeopinions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Women Should Be Required to Register with the Military, Too</title>
		<link>http://ideas.time.com/2012/01/03/women-should-be-required-to-register-with-the-military-too/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 12:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erika Christakis and Nicholas A. Christakis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As we wind down another war, it&#8217;s worth asking why we exclude women from the selective-service rolls. Registration is required of all men over 18, including even undocumented and foreign residents, and military recruiters use these lists. Currently, women make up just under 15% of active-duty military personnel and 16% of commissioned officers, and the Department of Defense has been paying more attention to this paucity of female soldiers. This is a good thing, too, since we know first hand that there are many young women, including at Harvard, who are interested in serving. (PHOTOS: Barack and Michelle Obama Visit Troops on Christmas) But it’s not altruism or a sense of fair play that motivated last year&#8217;s recommendation by the Military Diversity Leadership Commission (an advisory panel established by Congress) to increase opportunities for women in the armed forces. The Commission noted in a March report that “the shrinking pool of qualified candidates for service in the Armed Forces is a threat to national security,” and has even recommended  that combat-exclusion policies against women be eliminated, in part to remove barriers to career advancement and in part because enemy techniques are increasingly blurring the line between combat and noncombat situations. In fact, the demands of 21st century armed services are arguably well matched to attributes that women can master as well as, or better than, men, even if they are indeed physically less strong on average: flexibility, creative problem-solving, ability to work with a diverse population, linguistic ability, higher levels of education and so on. In 2010, General James Mathis, then-commander of U.S. Joint Forces Command said: “I don’t care how tactically or operationally brilliant you are, if you can’t create harmony on the battlefield based on trust across service lines, across coalition and national lines, and across civilian/military lines, you really need to go home, because your leadership is obsolete.” But the critical importance of supposedly “soft” skills to the strategic mission of the armed forces is often minimized, leaving the military vulnerable to serious gaps in personnel with everything from<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideas.time.com&#038;blog=27622548&#038;post=6371&#038;subd=timeopinions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Should Medical Journals Print Info That Could Help Bioterrorists?</title>
		<link>http://ideas.time.com/2011/12/27/should-medical-journals-print-info-that-could-help-bioterrorists/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 10:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Cohen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bird flu is deadly, but it generally does not spread easily from human to human. Now, scientists in Wisconsin and the Netherlands have created a strain of bird flu that can spread through the air — a virus that could kill millions if terrorists managed to create a batch and weaponize it. This raises a thorny question: Should medical journals be allowed to print the details of how the virus is made? A government advisory board has urged two scientific journals to omit some of the specifics about the virus — the first time it has issued such a request. Supporters insist that the board’s request is a much-needed precaution that could save millions of lives. But critics say that the government is engaging in censorship and interfering with academic freedom. (PHOTOS: Bird Flu Outbreak of 2008) It is a classic clash of liberty versus security. The question is such a difficult one because whichever course the government takes carries risks and costs. Which option — blocking publication or allowing it — is the lesser of two evils? It is not hard to see why the government is seeking to keep details of the virus out of print. The H5N1 bird-flu virus rarely infects humans. But when it does cross the species barrier, the mortality rate can be as high as 60%. If terrorists were able to use the new research to make a contagious strain of the virus, the result could be a real-world version of the movie Contagion. That is: worldwide panic and mass deaths. The government is trying to avoid this by urging scientific journals to describe the virus only in general terms and keep out the sort of details that could be used to replicate it. The National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity, which was created after the deadly anthrax attacks of 2001, asked the journals Science and Nature to be selective when they published articles on the highly contagious strain of H5N1. So what’s the problem? Critics say the government is engaging in censorship by telling the media what it should and should not write<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideas.time.com&#038;blog=27622548&#038;post=6066&#038;subd=timeopinions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What To Thank a Vet For: Compassion</title>
		<link>http://ideas.time.com/2011/11/11/what-to-thank-a-veteran-for-compassion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 12:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rajiv Srinivasan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Underneath the regalia and pomp and circumstance, Veterans Day is somewhat of an awkward experience for both veterans and civilians in how we interact. For us veterans, it’s often hard to accept thanks for going to war, when we know others have done and sacrificed far more than we have. It’s hard because not all of us join the military for such benevolent, patriotic reasons. Some of us join to break free from our hometowns. Some join to test themselves. And let’s face it, a lot of folks are like me and joined for the free education. But for the civilian, the act of thanking a veteran for their service is awkward as well. Not in the least because the gratitude isn’t genuine but rather because it&#8217;s too unfocused. It’s hard to thank someone when you truly have no idea what they’ve done. That’s not a flaw of character on the civilian’s part by any means but simply a narrative that I fear goes untold in today’s 24-hour news cycle. (MORE: A Brief History of Unknown Soldiers) When my military friends and I turn on the news, we relive the moments of violence and fear showcased on B-roll footage of soldiers in combat. I remember the adrenaline-charged feeling of firefights in Kandahar. My power was not in the finger on my rifle’s trigger, but rather the finger on my radio. Just as every good Army platoon leader, I trained vigorously for the decisive moment where I would call for fire upon my enemy. Calling for mortars and aviation fire is the bread and butter of the military profession. My soldiers relished the idea of raining down hell on Taliban positions off in the distance. And when the explosions erupted, they cheered. And I felt like a 24-year-old god holding nothing short of the wrath of the U.S. Army in his hands — just one radio click away. But behind the scenes where the cameras don’t go, Taliban leaders would bundle their severely wounded teammates into a taxi cab, drive to<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideas.time.com&#038;blog=27622548&#038;post=3552&#038;subd=timeopinions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>War Belongs To Women, Too</title>
		<link>http://ideas.time.com/2011/11/08/war-belongs-to-women-too/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 16:56:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Abigail E. Disney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[War has been much on the American mind lately. In just the last month we have seen an assassination short-circuit an already dubious peace process in Afghanistan, a promise from our president to pull most of our forces out of Iraq by the end of 2011 and the conviction in an American court of the notorious arms dealer Victor Bout, the “merchant of death” who supplied weapons to the Taliban and fueled civil wars in Africa. A hopeful outcome in Libya has overlapped with a new involvement in Uganda, while the saber rattling about Iran and Syria has intensified in some quarters. (MORE: What&#8217;s the Big Deal? The Arab League&#8217;s Non Solution to Syria) War is one of the most regular and ancient of mankind’s preoccupations, but the nature of war has changed dramatically. Today’s wars are more likely to be waged not between states but within them. In the late 1940s intrastate wars accounted for half of all conflicts. By 1990 that number had soared to nearly 90%. In these wars, then, civilians don’t see soldiers in uniforms with flags leading campaigns but groups of armed countrymen battling for power against other groups of armed countrymen with whole cities, towns and villages as their battlefield and few laws of war governing their conduct. And in the crossfire: women. But war stories are changing as war does. And women are at the center of that evolution. Having fought to get rape recognized as a war crime in the aftermath of the Bosnian war and to pass a U.N. resolution that urged the world to make women a central part of peace talks, women and women’s advocates want to change the way history sees women in conflict. Their message is that war can no longer belong only to men. And increasingly women are fighting their way into history, speaking up and vying for a voice in ending the battle and negotiating a settlement. In Liberia, women activists banded together to force men to break a negotiations stalemate that had made peace look impossible.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ideas.time.com&#038;blog=27622548&#038;post=3473&#038;subd=timeopinions&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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