"Apparently
using the word war where terrorists are concerned is
starting to feel a bit dated," former Vice President Dick Cheney
complained in his speech at the American Enterprise Institute last
week. But as President Obama showed in the speech he delivered the
same day, he still clings to the language of war when discussing
terrorism. Like his predecessor, says Senior Editor Jacob Sullum,
Obama uses such rhetoric selectively, to justify departures from
standard legal procedures when they prove to be inconvenient.
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