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Monday, April 28, 2008
Jekyll Island’s Future: Let’s Map It
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Developers in the next 30 days are expected to unveil the latest plans for state-owned Jekyll Island, amid growing concerns that the plans for the condo-hotel-retail project will encroach on a maritime swamp forest. Read story.
“Maritime forests are extremely rare and getting more so all the time,” said David Kyler, executive director of the nonprofit Center for a Sustainable Coast. “We don’t think any of it is expendable, especially at a state park accessible by causeway.”
How should we develop Jekyll or should we allow any additional development at all? Should we simply redevelop existing hotels while not encroaching on any undeveloped portions of the island? Or does the island need the economic boost that more shops, hotels and condos would provide?
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Interrogation or torture?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
To its lasting shame, the United States has embraced torture as an effective way to get information out of “high-value” terrorism suspects, writes Anthony Lewis. He adds; “George W. Bush may seek his God’s mercy for trying to legitimize torture by Americans. But here on Earth he cannot escape judgment. For me he will always be the Torture President.” Read his full essay here.
Neil C. Livingstone counters that “enhanced interrogation techniques” are not torture — some are not even close — but that in any case the president should have every tool available to him to fight terrorism. “We entrust the president with nuclear weapons,” he writes. “Surely we can trust the president to authorize use of enhanced interrogation techniques in time of national emergency. Read his full essay here.
For background, see an in-depth timeline of the evolution of the Bush administration’s interrogation policy here.
What do you think? Have our interrogation techniques crossed the line into torture? What is appropriate when it comes to interrogating suspected terrorists?
