Critics of the OFBCI, including Americans United for Separation of Church and State and the American Civil Liberties Union, assert that it violated the Establishment Clause by using tax money to fund religion.

Critics such as the American Civil Liberties Union have argued that the benefits of security theater are temporary and illusory since after such security measures inevitably fail, not only is the feeling of insecurity increased, but there is also loss of belief in the competence of those responsible for security.

* Best Documentary of the Year awards for The Fog of War ( 2003 ): the National Board of Review, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, the Chicago Film Critics, and the Washington D. C. Area Film Critics.

Critics say that Menzies ' success was mainly due to the good luck of the long post-war boom and his manipulation of the anti-communist fears of the Cold War years, both of which he exploited with great skill.

Critics of the textbook note the lack of detail about historical events such as the Siege of Leningrad ( 1941 – 44 ), the Gulag forced-labour camps, the Russo – Finnish Winter War ( 1939 – 40 ), the First Chechen War ( 1994 – 96 ), and the Second Chechen War ( 1999 – 2000 ), as serious factual inaccuracies ; most egregious, the critics propose, is the absence of the Holocaust ( 1933 – 45 ), and the glorification of the rule of Josef Stalin ( 1922 – 53 ).

* Louis, William ( editor ) The Origins of the Second World War: A. J. P Taylor And His Critics, New York: Wiley & Sons, 1972.

Critics of Friedman's position on the Iraq War have noted his recurrent assertion that " the next six months " will prove critical in determining the outcome of the conflict.

Critics have used the term " perpetual war " in reference to non-military " wars ", such as the " War on Drugs ", " War on Poverty ", " War on Cancer ", Lou Dobbs's " War on the Middle Class ", or the " War on Terrorism " or Bill O ' Reilly's " War on Christmas ".

Critics claimed that the Oil-for-Food Programme was responsible, under the blockage of dual-use equipment, for preventing Iraq from repairing the water purification and medical systems destroyed by the initial sanctions and during 1991 Gulf War, and others challenged the programme on the grounds that it would not permit Iraq to import the food and medicine necessary to prevent millions of easily preventable deaths.

* Doenecke, Justus D. " Reinhold Niebuhr and his Critics: The Interventionist Controversy in World War II.

Critics also believe that, in exchange for providing humanitarian aid, the South should demand that the North return detained South Korean citizens and the remains of POWs from the Korean War.

Critics do not consider it neutral but hostile to religion, whereas since World War II, some have seen the evolution of a " positive " laïcité which manages competing pluralities rather than serving as secular alternative to religion.

Critics of the amendment argue that with the end of the Cold War, Jackson-Vanik is now merely a counterproductive trade discrimination.

Critics have pointed out that the newspaper strongly supported the Vietnam War, headlining an editorial in 1967 " U. S. Troops Must Stay in Vietnam ," and condemned protests of the first Persian Gulf War as " unrealistic " in 1991.

Critics often cite this distinction when commenting on O ' Brien's artistic aims in The Things They Carried and, in general, all of his fiction about Vietnam, claiming that O ' Brien feels that the realities of the Vietnam War are best explored in fictional form rather than the presentation of precise facts.

Critics of current naval doctrine argue that although such a fleet battle is unlikely to occur in the foreseeable future, Cold War thinking continues to dominate naval practice.

Critics regarded it as one of the finest U. S. military memoirs, and it was a major financial success as well.

Critics of safe trade argue that the military and agriculture aspects of biosecurity are dissimilar, unlikely to converge in the form of an attack disguised as an accident, and require such differential prevention and response measures that there is little risk reduced in altering the fundamental structure of trade relationships to accommodate a robust regime of biosecurity.

Critics of the bombing argue that Dresden — sometimes referred to as " Florence on the Elbe " ( Elbflorenz )— was a cultural landmark of little or no military significance, and that the attacks were indiscriminate area bombing and not proportionate to the commensurate military gains.

Critics argue Napoleon's true legacy must reflect the loss of status for France and needless deaths brought by his rule: historian Victor Davis Hanson writes, " After all, the military record is unquestioned — 17 years of wars, perhaps six million Europeans dead, France bankrupt, her overseas colonies lost.

Critics of the policies were suspicious of the increasing willingness of the United States to use military force unilaterally.

Critics charge that to achieve the defeat of Shining Path, the Peruvian military engaged in widespread human rights abuses, and that the majority of the victims were poor highland countryside inhabitants caught in the crossfire between the military and insurgents.

Critics say that thus the politicians exactly played the role that the military wanted them to play.

Critics, however, said that the issue was one that should be experimented on in society as a whole, not in the military.

Critics of this system cite the high maintenance cost reported by the military.

Critics and fans criticized the story for taking place at a military academy.

Critics of the Valech Report say that families are falsely claiming that their relatives went missing during the 1973 – 1990 military regime, as there have been reports since 2000 that four people listed as killed or missing, were alive or had died in unrelated circumstances.

Critics believed she should have been held partly accountable for the abuses committed at Abu Ghraib by military intelligence personnel, but she was never officially implicated, charged, or reprimanded.

Critics complained that the military school concept was antiquated, and should all together be eliminated.

Critics of the system say that tribunals: are relatively toothless ; may give witnesses immunity that they would not obtain from a court ; allow legal representation to all parties, resulting in a higher final cost to the State than the cost of the original malfeasance ; and that they can delay difficult political decisions.

Critics argued that the USA could not evade its obligation to conduct competent tribunals to determine whether captives are, or are not, entitled to the protections of prisoner of war status.

" Critics argued the Conventions obliged the United States to conduct competent tribunals to determine the status of prisoners.

Critics have charged Bopp with neglecting the study of the native Sanskrit grammars, but in those early days of Sanskrit studies the great libraries of Europe did not hold the requisite materials ; if they had, those materials would have demanded his full attention for years, while such grammars as those of Charles Wilkins and Henry Thomas Colebrooke, from which Bopp derived his grammatical knowledge, had all used native grammars as a basis.

Critics had charged he was lukewarm, at best, on the goal of desegregation of public schools.

Critics of the theory charged that the Indochinese wars were largely indigenous or nationalist in nature ( such as the Vietnamese driving out the French ), and that no such monolithic force as " world communism " existed.

Critics later charged that the speech provided Joseph Stalin and Kim Il-sung with reason to believe the US would not intervene if they invaded the South.

Critics charged that Banks used the dramatic events of 9 / 11, and other features of the early 21st century, more as wallpaper than in any meaningful or resonant way.

" Critics charged that the dictionary was reluctant to defend standard English, for example entirely eliminating the labels " colloquial ", " correct ", " incorrect ", " proper ", " improper ", " erroneous ", " humorous ", " jocular ", " poetic ", and " contemptuous ", among others.

Critics charged that the party was an effort to recruit people for Transcendental Meditation, and that it resembled " the political arm of an international corporation " more than a " home-grown political creation ".

" Critics have charged that this policy orientation reflects a sectarian, conservative Catholic position that endangers the religious freedom of others, as well as faith / state separation

Critics charged that Reagan was insensitive to the plight of the poor, and that anyway the economic troubles of the 1970s were beyond any president's ability to control or reverse.

Critics of his plan charged that the tax cuts would reduce revenues, leading to large federal deficits, which would lead in turn to higher interest rates, stifling any economic benefits.

Critics have long charged that Faubus ' fight in Little Rock against the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision by the U. S. Supreme Court that separate schools were inherently unequal was politically motivated.

Critics later charged that Novak had done so to avoid discussing recent developments in the Valerie Plame affair on-air.

Critics, including pathologist and former JAMA editor George Lundberg, have charged that the reduction in autopsies is negatively affecting the care delivered in hospitals, because when mistakes result in death, they are often not investigated and lessons therefore remain unlearned.

" Critics have also charged that the school's belief in human rationality contributed to bubbles such as the recent financial crisis, and that the school's trust in markets to self-regulate has offered no aid to the economy in the wake of the crisis.

Critics of the Court charged that the judiciary had usurped legislative authority and had embodied a particular economic theory, laissez faire, into its decisions.

Critics charged the Institute was associating itself with the tobacco industry's many attempts to discredit authentic scientific work.

Critics have charged that there is an oversupply of manufactured goods, driving down prices and profits while increasing the level of bad debt in the banking system.

Critics charged that the Apotex contributions may have been an attempt to sidestep Canada's laws on corporate donations.

Critics also charged the newspaper with subtly incorporating antisemitic and white racialist undertones in its articles, and with carrying advertisements in the classified section for openly neo-Nazi groups and books.

Critics further charged that when CARB, in response to the EV1, mandated that electric vehicles make up a certain percentage of all automakers ' sales, GM came to fear that the EV1 might encourage unwanted regulation in other states.

Critics have charged that the entire process has been compromised by chemical company interference.

Critics also charged that the authorities did not organize the siege properly, including failing to keep the scene secure from entry by civilians, while the emergency services were not prepared during the 52 hours of the crisis.

Critics charged that he was an unresponsive leader who was not appropriately concerned with the city's large crime problem, neglected the maintenance of streets, and did little to curb the exodus of Jackson's upper-and middle-class residents to places outside the city limits.

Critics charged that Johnson said crime was only a " perception ," although his perception complaints were, in fact, about the " perception of hopelessness " that he argued that crime sensationalism by the media promoted in the city.