AFTER HAMDAN


The President should continue to violate the Geneva Conventions because:

a. the Framers didn't mean it when they made treaty obligations the Supreme law of the Land under the Constitution;

b. the Attorney General has determined that some of the Geneva Conventions are "quaint;"

c. as Professor Yoo protests, the Conventions "suppress creative thinking;" or

d. legal limitations-on-what-presidents-can-do are dangerous and unconstitutional.


The President should continue to violate the anti-torture law that Congress passed because:

a. the Vice President has learned from long experience that people who are willing to die for their cause, and who have no hope of ever being released or even brought to trial, will tell us what we want to know if we traumatize and degrade them enough;

b. since 9/11, torturing Arabs is not the same as torturing Americans, or even the French;

c. it's safer to be loathed than respected, especially in the Middle East; or

d. legal limitations-on-what-presidents-can-do are dangerous and unconstitutional.