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DESCRIPTION:RULES OF DISENGAGEMENT\nThe Politics and Honor of Military 
 Dissent\n\nMarjorie Cohn\nPresident, National Lawyers Guild\n\nRules of 
 engagement limit forms of combat, levels of force, and legitimate enemy 
 targets, defining what is legal in warfare and what is not. In the modern 
 world, the rules of engagement are defined by an established body of 
 international law and, for American soldiers, by U.S. law as well.\n\nWhen 
 the government at the highest levels ignores these rules, when the conduct 
 of a war and the war itself violate the law, as happened in Vietnam and is 
 now happening in Iraq and Afghanistan, soldiers are forced into a legal and 
 ethical dilemma. They must decide whether to abide by law and 
 conscience--knowing the government does not--or to follow orders without 
 regard to law.\n\nRules of Disengagement, a new book from activist attorney 
 Marjorie Cohn, examines the legal and moral questions posed by these wars 
 through the eyes of American soldiers, showing the effects the wars have 
 had on the soldiers’ lives and those of their families.\n\nMarjorie Cohn 
 has been a writer, teacher, and scholar for more than 15 years and a 
 practicing attorney since 1975. She authored Cowboy Republic: Six Ways the 
 Bush Gang Has Defied the Law (PoliPointPress 2007). Her columns have 
 appeared in the Christian Science Monitor, the Chicago Tribune, Huffington 
 Post, AlterNet, Common Dreams, and The National Law Journal. She is a 
 professor at Thomas Jefferson School of Law, president of the National 
 Lawyers Guild, and the U.S. representative to the executive committee of 
 the American Association of Jurists.\n\nCopies of Rules of Disengagement 
 will be available for sale and signing by the author at the end of the 
 program.\n\n\n$8 - $20 suggested donation || No one turned away for lack of 
 $ || Wheelchair accessible\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/05/18/18595730.php
SUMMARY:Marjorie Cohn: Rules of Disengagement
LOCATION:Fellowship Hall, First Presbyterian Church\n1140 Cowper Street\nPalo Alto, 
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