{"id":3016,"date":"2005-01-09T14:20:16","date_gmt":"2005-01-09T21:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2005\/01\/alberto-gonzales-and-the-war-on-terror\/"},"modified":"2005-01-09T14:20:16","modified_gmt":"2005-01-09T21:20:16","slug":"alberto-gonzales-and-the-war-on-terror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2005\/01\/09\/alberto-gonzales-and-the-war-on-terror\/","title":{"rendered":"Alberto Gonzales and the War on Terror"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tRich Lowry gets the Alberto Gonzales nomination fight right:<\/a> <\/p>\n

The confirmation hearings for Al Gonzales’s nomination as attorney general ostensibly are about his suitability for the job. But the real issue is how we conduct the war on terror. Are terrorists soldiers, just like any other? Do we have a right to pressure them for information upon capture? The Democrats’ answers are, by implication, “yes” and “no” respectively. Which is why the Bush administration should welcome a big, high-profile fight over this nomination.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The endless posturing about torture is clearly beside the point. Gonzales was asked for a legal opinion on the scope of the Geneva Conventions, and he gave a sound legal answer. What’s right isn’t always in line with what’s legal, either. See Andrew McCarthy in NRO<\/a>:<\/p>\n

For hours, the confirmation hearing for the Attorney General designate, Alberto Gonzales, was grueling ? for his detractors. The White House Counsel handled often strident questioning with aplomb. But, as strongly as Judge Gonzales held his ground on such matters as the non-applicability of the Geneva Conventions to alien enemy combatants, his critics provided just as strong a justification for his inevitable confirmation. In a word, they were fatuous.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For a good example of a fatuous reaction to Gonzales, see former Mercury News tech columnist Chris Nolan compare Al Qaeda to the American civil rights movement<\/a>. No, I’m not kidding, she really does. Good thing for her she doesn’t allow comments on her blog.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rich Lowry gets the Alberto Gonzales nomination fight right: The confirmation hearings for Al Gonzales’s nomination as attorney general ostensibly are about his suitability for the job. But the real issue is how we conduct the war on terror. Are terrorists soldiers, just like any other? Do we have a right to pressure them for … Continue reading “Alberto Gonzales and the War on Terror”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-ME","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3016\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}