![]() ![]() ![]() If there is any interest in further details, I will be glad (with his consent) to release the extended correspondence in which the New York Review editor repeatedly made the same point, and I responded in detail. The text elsewhere contains no qualification. It reads: “At its extreme, this reasoning holds that the US should not be bound by international rules….” Mathews does indeed criticize the “extreme” perspective that she describes, which is clearly and explicitly distinguished from the “non-extreme” position that I quoted and attributed accurately and properly. The second example is that I was “simply confused” in quoting Jessica Mathews, attributing to her the view quoted “when in fact she was criticizing that perspective.” Roth does not take into account the sentence that immediately follows the passage we are discussing. The observation was accurate: it referred, explicitly, to what the Obama administration was considering in 2009, citing the news reports of May 2009. His first case charges “sloppiness” in my observation that the Obama administration was considering reviving military commissions while in fact they continued to operate. I am sorry that Kenneth Roth found the book of mine that he reviewed, Who Rules the World?, “infuriating.” I have of course looked with interest at his reasons, but do not find them convincing. ![]()
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