Our operations in Somalia--which even US government officials admit may be counterproductive in the long run--are the latest case in point.
In which we travel into interesting waters . . . (for a fairly long trip, so be prepared) Dr. King's 1968 book, Where do we go from here: chaos or community? , is profound in that it criticizes anti-poverty programs for their piecemeal approach, as John Schlosberg of the Center for a Stateless Society [C4SS] observes: King noted that the antipoverty programs of the time “proceeded from a premise that poverty is a consequence of multiple evils,” with separate programs each dedicated to individual issues such as education and housing. Though in his view “none of these remedies in itself is unsound,” they “all have a fatal disadvantage” of being “piecemeal,” with their implementation having “fluctuated at the whims of legislative bodies” or been “entangled in bureaucratic stalling.” The result is that “fragmentary and spasmodic reforms have failed to reach down to the profoundest needs of the poor.” Such single-issue approaches also have “another common failing — ...
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We finally have a proactive president...
This is pro-active idiocy.
Iraq
Somalia
Mali
Mexico
Indonesia (?)
Pakistan
we, the shining city on the hill, are killing people in all these countries and probably more. Who knows what our anti-drug efforts are doing in central America?
And our President runs around with his secret list. He won't tell anyone who's on it, but if your name shows up, you're dead.
For you Dem progs who think that's OK, imagine President Jeb Bush with that power in four years.
Obomba is "pro-active" like a warlord is "pro-active".
Since you feel that's "awesome".
Have a read of Glenn Greenwald's latest article.
He talking about you.
"Extremism Normalized: How Americans Now Acquiesce to Once Unthinkable Ideas"
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/07/31-0