Ferguson and Fairfax: Profiles in Official Cowardice
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on September 21st, 2014 11:08 pm by HL
Ferguson and Fairfax: Profiles in Official Cowardice
Carl M. Cannon, RealClearPolitics
One of the catalysts for the rage and rioting in Ferguson, Mo., was the sight of that poor teenager’s body lying face down in the street hour after hour. At 12:02 p.m. August 9, one of their officers shot unarmed 18-year-old Michael Brown six times. By 12:05 p.m., a responding paramedic pronounced him dead. Yet his body was still there in the summer sun at 4 p.m., the sheet not quite long enough to cover his 6-foot-3-inch frame. Among the outraged onlookers in the Canfield Green apartment complex was his mother, distraught, and barricaded from her son’s body by police. At least…
In a War – But Not at War
David Shribman, RealClearPolitics
CHICAGO — The trains still screech on the elevated tracks of the Loop. The crowds still gather along the packed streets outside the iconic popcorn and nut outlets. The sweet-cheese pierogi and the borscht still are crowd favorites in the city’s Polish restaurants. Chicago never felt so normal as it did last week. This is the paradox of our time: The United States is in a war, but Americans aren’t at war. We are speaking, of course, of the American initiative against the Islamic State, different not only from the American conflicts in the two world wars and the two major…
Arming Syria Rebels Will Make ISIS Fight More Difficult
Sen. Rand Paul, RealClearPolitics
(Sen. Paul delivered the following remarks on September 18, 2014 on the Senate floor) If there is one theme that connects the dots in the Middle East, it is that chaos breeds terrorism. What much of the foreign policy elite fails to grasp is that intervention to topple secular dictators has been the prime source of that chaos. From Hussein to Assad to Ghaddafi we have the same history. Intervention topples the secular dictator. Chaos ensues and radical jihadists emerge. The pattern has been repeated time after time and yet what we have here is a failure to understand, a failure to reflect on…
