In Libya, Inaction Was Not an Option
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on March 30th, 2011 4:31 am by HL
In Libya, Inaction Was Not an Option
Richard Cohen, Washington Post
In 1938, President Franklin D. Roosevelt proposed an international conference at Evian-les-Bains, France, to deal with the urgent problem of Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany. Representatives from 32 countries met for nine days, trying to come to grips with a humanitarian calamity. At the end, only the Dominican Republic agreed to admit additional Jewish refugees, and Hitler, observing matters from Berlin, concluded that the world would permit him to do with the Jews as he wished. He murdered 6 million of them.The Evian conference is not much mentioned anymore — although it should…
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Michael Hirsh, National Journal
In contrast to a lot of Wall Street CEOs, Vikram Pandit seems quite human. Vulnerable, even. No one ever heard Pandit say, “Let’s go kill someone,” as John (Mack the Knife) Mack of Morgan Stanley reportedly used to bark to his derivatives team at the start of a trading day. It’s hard to imagine the soft-spoken CEO of Citigroup as a “vampire squid… relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money,” as in writer Matt Taibbi’s notorious description of Goldman Sachs.
President Still Murky on Libya
Victor Davis Hanson, National Review
President Obama just gave a weird speech. Part George W. Bush, part trademark Obama – filled with his characteristic split-the-difference, straw-man (“some say, others say”), false-choice tropes.His support for those “yearning for freedom all around the world” was the sort of interventionist foreign policy that a Senator Obama — if his past reaction to the removal of Saddam Hussein is any indication — would have objected to, especially in the case of sending bombers over an Arab Muslim oil-exporting country. Since Saddam was a far…
