In dramatic language, the new brief lays out what it sees at stake in Hamdan's case. "It is important to the international legal order that the United States exemplify, even when faced with the threat of international terrorism, the highest standards of public international law and human rights law...It undermines the political and moral authority of the United States, and damages the rule of law in a troubled world, if the United States, contrary to its long tradition, fails to uphold the standards that it has been so instrumental in creating."
The Europeans argue that the Court should not await a ruling by the D.C. Circuit before acting itself. "This is not a case in which the legal issues would benefit from the process of 'percolating' through the Court of Appeals; further controversy is the last thing that is needed at this stage. Rather, what is needed is an authoritative determination of whether the military commission process that the Executive Branch has sought to implement at Guantanamo complies with the law, international and domestic, by which the Executive is bound....[America's] allies in the war on terror are deeply concerned with the prompt resolution of the questions that have arisen about the legitmacy of the military commission system and its compliance with law."
yeah we are a rouge nation allrighty
yeah lets see why do we have the UN if we are so goshed darned important?
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