Nina Hachigian writes a very <a href="http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=8dd2ecfe-88d0-405d-af94-6b17bd723ed7">thoughtful essay</a> in <em>The New Republic</em>
Via Michael Tomasky, an interview with veteran UN negotiator Lakhdar Brahimi, on how the latter would advise President-elect Obama to deal with the crisis in Gaza.He said that he will pay attention to
I'm taking literally the challenge to suggest a "Day One" announcement for the President-elect. It's difficult to choose amid the demolition of the last 8 (or 28) years one pile of rubble over another, but that most directly in the brief of the president to rebuild is the rule of law: habeus corpus has been central to Anglo-American jurisprudence for 800 years: delegitimize the concept of "enemy combatant," empty Gitmo, and try those long-suffering prisoners in real law courts, precedent or no.
