Hope in Afghanistan

It was a such wonderful news clip: Afghan women protesting the legalization of "rape within marriage." I hope the will of these brave women prevails over those chauvinistic lawmakers acting in the name of religion.

Somali pirates

Wow, the pirates were allowed to go scott free! UN and Canadian ships had to let go of a bunch of Somali pirates today because of legal loopholes... All they were legally allowed to do was disarm them. How funny! Now these same pirates will take some more hostages and demand more ransom!!

CIA and torture

I agree with CNN's David Gergen that there's no point conducting a witch hunt. This guy seems to be one of the few sensible voices around. On the other hand, we must not forget that some of the detainees we are dealing with are tough guys (trained in torture) and that we need to come up with an internationally acceptable way of handling them... we must find a way to get information from them without resorting to inhuman means.