MAX BOOT TESTIFIES ON IRAQ ON CAPITOL HILL
Max Boot, senior fellow for national security studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, testifies before the House Armed Services Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee on strategies for the Iraq War on Capitol Hill in Washington on July 12, 2007. (UPI Photo/David Brody)
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Congress ended the suspense and re-enacted the FISA Amendments Act in late December, giving the U.S. Supreme Court, which has already heard argument on one aspect of the law, a living controversy to chew on.
The Wall Street Journal ran an opinion piece on July 29 calling for the use of private security contractors to help transform the 9,000 or so African Union soldiers in Darfur into a more effective U.N. peacekeeping force.
The op-ed, titled "Mercenaries for Darfur," suggested using personnel from Blackwater Worldwide.
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The UPI think tank wrap-up is a daily digest covering opinion pieces, reactions to recent news events and position statements released by various think tanks. This is the first of several wrap-ups for March 24.
The UPI think tank wrap-up is a daily digest covering opinion pieces, reactions to recent news events and position statements released by various think tanks.
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