One book that might well have been grossly partisan, but is not, is John Yoo's "The Powers of War and Peace". Mr Yoo is one of America's most controversial lawyers. While serving in the Department of Justice from 2001 to 2003, he wrote or helped to write highly contentious legal opinions justifying the Bush administration's aggressive approach to detaining and interrogating suspected terrorists. Mr Yoo argued that the Geneva Conventions did not apply to "enemy combatants" captured in Afghanistan or anywhere else in the administration's "war on terror". He claimed that federal laws against torture banned only extreme pain equivalent to that "accompanying serious physical injury, such as organ failure, impairment of bodily function, or even death". And he said that, in any case, the president, as commander-in-chief engaged in a war, is not subject to these laws, nor would anyone be who followed his orders.
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机译：约翰·柳（John Yoo）的著作《战争与和平的力量》（The Powers of War and Peace）可能是一派游说主义者，但并非如此。 Yoo先生是美国最具争议的律师之一。从2001年至2003年在司法部任职期间，他撰写或帮助撰写了极具争议的法律意见，以证明布什政府采取积极措施拘留和讯问可疑恐怖分子的做法。柳先生辩称，《日内瓦公约》不适用于在阿富汗或政府“反恐战争”中其他任何地方俘获的“敌方战斗人员”。他声称，联邦禁止酷刑的法律仅禁止与“伴随严重的身体伤害，例如器官衰竭，身体机能受损甚至死亡”的极端痛苦相提并论。他说，无论如何，总统作为战争的总司令，不受这些法律的约束，也不会有人遵守他的命令。
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