New at Reason: Jacob Sullum on Martial Rhetoric and Preventive Detention

May 27, 2009

"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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