Posted: May 18, 2016 | Author: Pundit Planet | Filed under: Think Tank, War Room, White House | Tags: Arms Trade Treaty, Assad, Barack Obama, Commentary, Dictator, Noah Rothman, Syria, United States |
Where It All Went Wrong for Obama
Noah Rothman writes:
“One U.S. official who has been briefed on the options on Syria said he believed the White House would seek a level of intensity ‘just muscular enough not to get mocked,’” read a report in the Los Angeles Times. In his rebuke, was the president correcting Republicans, Democrats, America’s British allies, or the members of his own Cabinet? Perhaps the answer is all of the above.
“What kind of world will we live in if the United States of America sees a dictator brazenly violate international law with poison gas, and we choose to look the other way?”
[Read the full text here, at commentary]
He closed the speech by asking the country to summon up the resolve to punish Assad while simultaneously justifying his predetermination to stay his hand. It was the most confused and irresolute speech given by a sitting American president in living memory…(read more)
Source: commentary
Posted: November 6, 2013 | Author: Pundit Planet | Filed under: Crime & Corruption, Global, Self Defense | Tags: Arms Trade Treaty, Gun, Gun control, John Lott, List of countries by intentional homicide rate, More Guns Less Crime, Number of guns per capita by country, United States |
Awr Hawkins writes: Since 1998, John Lott‘s seminal work More Guns, Less Crime has been used to show that areas with the highest gun ownership in America experience the least crime on a per capita basis.
It now appears that what Lott discovered as true for the U.S.A. is true for the world as well as.
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‘It was the most confused and irresolute speech given by a sitting American president in living memory’
Posted: May 18, 2016 | Author: Pundit Planet | Filed under: Think Tank, War Room, White House | Tags: Arms Trade Treaty, Assad, Barack Obama, Commentary, Dictator, Noah Rothman, Syria, United States | 1 CommentWhere It All Went Wrong for Obama
Noah Rothman writes:
“One U.S. official who has been briefed on the options on Syria said he believed the White House would seek a level of intensity ‘just muscular enough not to get mocked,’” read a report in the Los Angeles Times. In his rebuke, was the president correcting Republicans, Democrats, America’s British allies, or the members of his own Cabinet? Perhaps the answer is all of the above.
“What kind of world will we live in if the United States of America sees a dictator brazenly violate international law with poison gas, and we choose to look the other way?”
[Read the full text here, at commentary]
He closed the speech by asking the country to summon up the resolve to punish Assad while simultaneously justifying his predetermination to stay his hand. It was the most confused and irresolute speech given by a sitting American president in living memory…(read more)
Source: commentary
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