This past week, President Obama talked with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about how to achieve peace in the Middle East after countless decades of instability and war. Although Netanyahu's reply to Obama's proposal was an emphatic "Yeah, right," the Israeli PM and President Obama did agree on hard and fast Israeli security for the borders. Oh, well, that makes sense I suppose...
Wait, no it doesn't. So, Israel, you want to achieve peace, but you don't want to compromise or work for it? What kind of lazy, self-important bulls**t is that?
"We can't go back to the 1967 borders"
You mean you
Oh, Were Those Your Toes? They Seem to Have Gotten in the Way
by Jason Lightner May 27th, 2011 | Independent Ideas, Political Opinions, World Politics
Too Liberal or Not Liberal Enough?
by Ronald A. Rowe May 24th, 2011 | General Politics, World Politics
To the victor go the spoils. For a while anyway. Sometimes you just have to willingly give back what you won by blood and battle. So goes President Obama’s logic on Israel, anyway.
As you’ve surely heard by now, the President of the United States of America suggested on Thursday that Israel should cede all lands won in their war with Palestine in 1967 and go back to the old map. Oddly enough, he did not take his argument to its logical conclusion and call for the return of the Western United States to the indigenous peoples from whom it
As you’ve surely heard by now, the President of the United States of America suggested on Thursday that Israel should cede all lands won in their war with Palestine in 1967 and go back to the old map. Oddly enough, he did not take his argument to its logical conclusion and call for the return of the Western United States to the indigenous peoples from whom it
Brief Thoughts on Current U.S. Events
by Jason Lightner May 10th, 2011 | Independent Ideas, Political Opinions
It's been roughly a week since the news of Osama bin Laden's assassination and it seems that, for now, things are the same as they have been for the past ten years. The bogeyman that we've been desperately chasing since the bombing of the U.S.S. Cole is finally put out to pasture and there isn't really any talk of going back to September 10, 2001, America. There's no talk of getting rid of the TSA, no talk of closing Guantanamo, and no talk of repairing our foreign relationships.
Instead all we're hearing about is how al-Qaeda had been
Instead all we're hearing about is how al-Qaeda had been
Bye Bye Birthers
by Ronald A. Rowe May 6th, 2011 | Political Opinions, Presidential Election, Presidential News
Last week I suggested that President Obama could end the whole Birther controversy easily. This week he did exactly as I recommended. When the White House posted Obama’s long-form birth certificate online, it pretty much put to bed any rational or constructive discussion on the issue. Of course, there will be conspiracy theorists who refuse to accept it.
Just as many staunch supporters of the president refused to acknowledge the question of his citizenship as legitimate when it was, his harshest critics will not believe that it isn’t now.
Just as many staunch supporters of the president refused to acknowledge the question of his citizenship as legitimate when it was, his harshest critics will not believe that it isn’t now.
Osama bin Laden Dead: What Now?
by Jason Lightner May 3rd, 2011 | Independent Ideas, Political Opinions, World Politics
So I had a nice little article lined up and ready to go about how Obama's address to members of the press at the White House Correspondent's Dinner was disingenuous with regard to how he has handled Wikileaks. However, when I opened up Al Jazeera just now I found this:
Needless to say, I felt it more appropriate to write about this historic event, rather than beat
"US president Barack Obama is due to make a statement shortly in which he is expected to announce the death of Osama bin Laden, the leader of al-Qaeda." (Updated since)
Needless to say, I felt it more appropriate to write about this historic event, rather than beat
