Jury Duty and COIN
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James Joyner | Thursday, February 19, 2009 |
I’m working on a longer post on “what jury duty can teach you about counter-insurgency.” It revolves around the following observation: prosecutors believe about 50 people witnessed the “urban gun battle” at the heart of the case I sat for; *3* eyewitnesses ultimately testified, all of whom had to be relocated due to concerns expressed about their safety. The long arm of the law doesn’t even extend the five miles from the US Capitol to Anacostia. Something to think about when establishing the “rule of law” in Kandahar and Kabul.
Indeed.
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About the Author: James Joyner is the publisher of Outside the Beltway and the managing editor of the Atlantic Council. He's a former Army officer, Desert Storm vet, and college professor with a PhD in political science from The University of Alabama. He lives just outside the Beltway in Alexandria, Virginia with his wife and infant daughter.
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