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Accused terrorists should be tried in civilian courts. Accused terrorists are being convicted in U.S. courts all the time. Are we now too afraid to allow trials and due process? As Glenn Greenwald says, "isn't that the textbook definition of surrendering to terrorists."

Columbus Day should not be celebrated as an official holiday. An interesting history topic to discuss and debate, not celebrate as an official holiday.

Racism has played a role in opposition to Barack Obama. Where were all the white anti-government mobs when government was expanding and our national debt was soaring higher than ever under George W. Bush? Many have legitimate concerns but many have been galvanized by the race factor.

EUは米国ミサイル防衛網を配備するべきではない。 Congrats to President Obama for abandoning plans for a long-range missile defense system based in Poland and the Czech Republic. Another refreshing foreign policy shift.

The U.S. should negotiate with the Taliban. We're not going to obliterate them. Also, let's not forget that Iran helped us overthrow the Taliban after 9/11. Let's also not forget that "the surge's" success most conservatives were confused about was contingent upon negotiations with Iraqi insurgents. And let's not forget that factions of the Taliban have already offered to sever ties with Al Qaeda with the hope of working out a deal with the Afghan government.

フォード大統領はニクソン大統領に特赦を与えるべきではなかった。

グアンタナモ米軍基地収容者は米国の刑務所に移されるべきである。 Agree with @jawlaw. And for those brought to justice we will never hear or see them again, which will help eliminate propaganda against the U.S. Typical most Americans don't support this since they didn't support paying for these wars and now they want to house the mess in other countries.

Sarah Palin should not pursue political office again. It's country over political expedience for me. The country is better served if she goes away but the GOP will sink deep if she and her cultish followers become the face of the party over the next several election cycles.

イスラエルとパレスチナの和平プロセスは外国の干渉がない方が効果的ではないだろう。 Under President Bush Israel became more isolated and less secure because of the notion that the U.S. was being pro-Israel by playing an inactive role in the peace process and supporting Israel no matter what. Instead, the peace process went backwards for 8 years. Both sides need to be pressured equally.

ソニア・ソトマヤーはジャスティス・ソーターの後継にふさわしい。 She sounds like she's relatively in the mold of Justice Souter, which is a good thing, although Souter was nominated by H.W. Bush and ended up aligning himself with the liberals on the court. I hope she doesn't surprise us! I'm reading now that she has been appointed by both Republicans and Democrats now to federal posts. Politically, the pick is genius because Republicans are losing the growing Hispanic vote in every election. It would be unwise for them to fight Sotomayor's nomination.

Sarah Palin will run for president in 2012. Everything I read in her incoherent resignation speech spelled 2012, even though it's hard to imagine even Sarah Palin can believe this is a smart strategy.

米国がベトナム戦争に関与したことは正当化されるべきではなかった。 Pointless.

マーク・サンフォードはサウス・カロライナ州知事を辞任するべきである。 Who cares that he cheated on his wife? It's none of my business but the guy went AWOL for a week. He's a governor...you can't just desert the gig without telling anyone. It's ridiculous. He needs to resign and get stable.

イラン選挙についての抗議は革命に発展する。 I agree with @jsyantiss on this one. It may not come swiftly but this is the beginning of a transition in Iran. I think the Mullahs drastically misjudged public sentiment and made some serious missteps. Reports of 500,000 people in one march today. As the theocrat oppressors crack down harder on the protests I think it will only put more fuel to the fire.

オバマ政権はイラン選挙暴動を支援する声明を発表するべきではない。 I agree with President Bush's Ambassador to Iran, @RNicholasBurns, when he says, "President Ahmadinejad would like nothing better than to see a very aggressive series of statements by the United States that would try to put the U.S. in the center of this."

選出議員は選挙の間に政治的所属を変更することを許されるべきである。

オバマ政権は中東和平プロセスに肯定的影響を及ぼすだろう。 Three days before Obama's speech to the Muslim world Hezbollah was the favorite in the Lebanon elections. Well, they ended up losing and I'm hopeful the speech had something to do with it. The extremists are losing the anti-American sentiment hand. Also, a recent poll shows Ahmadinejad trailing a moderate candidate in Iran.

オバマ大統領のイスラム世界へのメッセージを支持する。 Brilliant. This is the first step to turn things around from George Bush's crusade which put all Americans at risk and threatened the peace of the world for generations to come.

ビル・オライリーはジョージ・ティラー医師殺害に対して責任を負うべきである。 Agree with @AndrewSullivan on this. O'Reilly went after this guy on 28 episodes calling him a "baby killer," saying his "judgment day" will come. Now, if O'Reilly knew Tiller's life had been in danger before... and he knows very well that a radical part of the pro-life activists are viewers of his show, and he repeatedly talked about the "Holocaust" Tiller is creating and that he's a Nazi that must be stopped... and then Tiller gets shot in his church... you're telling me O'Reilly shouldn't at least tone down the attacks a little? When does a talk show host cross the line... by literally saying someone please kill this man? C'mon.

Mitt Romney has the best chance at becoming the Republican Party's presidential nominee in 2012. Romney and Palin will have all the money and both have no problem being as radical as you have to be to win the nomination in the new GOP. In the end, I have to believe Palin becomes a joke even for Republicans, but neither has any chance of actually winning.

オバマ大統領は米国抑留者の虐待を写した新しい写真を公開するべきではない。 Everyone knows what happened at Abu Ghraib. I don't see any good coming out and releasing more photos at this time. The world knows the U.S. was a nation of torture under President Bush and that has now changed under Obama. No need to risk the safety of our troops and national security by releasing pictures from that era again.

Gen. Eric Shinseki was a good choice for Secretary of Veterans' Affairs. He was awarded the purple heart twice and as @JuanCole said, if Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz listened to Shinseki when he told them before the Iraq War that it would take over 200,000 troops to stabilize the country after the invasion, less troops would have needed treatment for life altering injuries suffered from policing Iraq.

攻撃用武器は不法であるべきだ。

アーレン・スペクターの民主党への鞍替えは共和党に否定的影響をもたらすだろう。 I don't think Specter is going to start voting in lockstep with the Democrats. Maybe he will feel less pressured and vote a little more with Democrats but most importantly this switch symbolizes the GOP's shift towards becoming a regional or fringe party.

オバマ大統領の最初の100日間は満足できるものだった。 He is doing better than most politicians when it comes to governing the way he promised he would during the campaign. Hell, he's even got Republicans scrambling to switch parties. Heh.

Private sellers at gun shows should be required to do background checks. It blows my mind that even the extremists at the NRA would object to something so reasonable.

議会はブッシュ政権の尋問政策を調査するべきではない。 I don't think Congress should. The Department of Justice should and will because it's now a fact the Bush Administration authorized torture and had one of their right-wing appointed judges whip up a legal memo that said certain tactics were legal. It's interesting that the U.S. prosecuted and convicted Japanese soldiers who waterboarded U.S. troops during WWII but when the situation is reversed Republicans claim it's legal and justified.

CIAの拷問法についての覚書は、オバマ政権によって公表されるべきだった。 We live in the U.S., not China, the old Soviet Union or Iran. It's now time to remove the black cloud leftover from the Bush Administration. The world knows the U.S. has tortured people so it's time to officially unveil this fact and come to terms with it.

米国はベネズエラと外交関係を持つべきである。 Forget about the handshake, we should be engaged with Venezuela and major players in every region. It's irresponsible not to be and especially because you don't like it if some blowhard dictator calls you names.

司法省はブッシュ政権の尋問法を遂行したCIA職員を起訴するべきではない。

マリファナ・パーティー反対は草の根運動ではない。 Funded by conservative think tanks and then promoted by Fox News. Considering that, it's pretty sad they only had approximately 268,000 people attend 207 protests across the country.

米国は海賊と闘うために民間業者を雇うべきだ。 I don't think it's appropriate to have billion dollar ships patrolling international waters on the lookout for drugged up teenagers trying to steal money from fishing boats.

フォックス・ニュースのマリファナパーティー反対報道は適切ではない。 It seems strange to me that a news network is actually promoting/supporting an anti-government protest. Why wasn't Fox letting people know where anti-war rallies were in 2003? As I recall, you were deemed unpatriotic by Fox for protesting your government during a time of war. Why the change of heart, Fox? We're still at war and federal taxes haven't been raised in 16 years. What are these protests really about?

税金を払うことは愛国的だ。 Great quote from Teddy Roosevelt (hat tip @RobertReich), "The man of great wealth owes a particular obligation to the state because he derives special advantages from the mere existence of government."

オバマ大統領の予算案は満足できる。 It has a big vision. People are resistant to big ideas and change. Our ex-cheerleader in chief never would have had the balls to actually try and change the country by fixing the health care crisis and setting us on a path towards clean energy and energy independence.

オバマ大統領はソマリアの海賊に武力を行使することを許可するべきだった。

米国はソマリアの海賊基地に軍事行動を取るべきではない。 Absolutely not.

海賊は公式にテロリスト扱いされるべきではない。

米国はキューバと外交関係を持つべきである。 Our approach toward Cuba has been deranged and counterproductive to our interests in Latin America.

オバマ大統領の国家安全保障政策は、米国へのテロ攻撃の脅威を低下させている。 Obama has shifted diplomatic and military resources to Afghanistan/Pakistan, the region where the people who attacked us have been hanging out the last 8 years while George Bush played out his fantasy in Iraq. He shifted Pentagon spending away from Cold War era projects to counterinsurgency and counter-terrorism systems. And let's be honest, over time he'll get more cooperation from countries around the globe when combating terror cells than George Bush.