Can we conjecture that the need for responsiveness and accountability, when there is a primary necessity like security at stake, tends to relegate other dimensions of democratic quality, such as the freedom and equality of popular participation, to second place and thus to redefine the ties between democracy, participation and territory?
But on the inside of the operation, with so much power at stake, the pragmatic necessities of empire, a.k.a., our national interests -- control of oil, dominance in the Middle East, the well-being of defense contractors -- morph into patriotic values, and seem, all of a sudden, worth the cost in human lives, environmental devastation and even the well-being of future generations.
And it's not only the dumbfounding necessity to defend fundamental concerns that is at stake here, exhausting as this might be in its vapidity.
In August, he called Afghanistan "a war of necessity". On Tuesday night, he defined "what's at stake" as "the common security of the world". The world, no less.
Given all that is at stake, we believe comprehensive discussions are a necessity as we work our way toward ever more significant nuclear disarmament.
It holds that, where the constitutional safeguards of the Fifth and Sixth Amendments for a citizen's freedom from tyranny are at stake, they should not be withdrawn except through absolute necessity.
Indeed more than once the policy has been applied in order to avoid the necessity of deciding the 'case or controversy' jurisdictional question, when constitutional issues were at stake on the merits, e.g., recently in declaratory judgment proceedings.
With more choices, research and money at stake, we live in a time with a lot of controversy about the necessity of supplements.
On those rare occasions, we are bound to follow the Supreme Court's admonition that "even the most compelling necessity cannot overcome the claim of privilege if the court is ultimately satisfied that [state] secrets are at stake".
