When an ICE agent shot and killed Minneapolis resident Renee Good after she allegedly obstructed immigration authorities with her vehicle, disobeyed their commands, and attempted to flee – drawing fatal fire from an officer nearly struck by the vehicle – politicians and pundits decried her death as murder. They called it particularly unjust because she was not acting as a protester but a legal observer. Read More
The vice president is suddenly everywhere as he makes the case for war with Iran. He told CNN that “history will record” that it was the right decision to take out Ayatollah Khamenei and said on CNBC that it was time for the United States to “finish the war” that Iran started nearly half-a-century ago. He praised on Fox News the “decisive leadership” of President Trump and condemned on Newsmax an Iranian regime that “openly advocates another holocaust.” Read More
Will President Trump fall prey to the “Pottery Barn Doctrine”? Articulated by Secretary of State Colin Powell in the run-up to the Iraq War, it holds that when you break something – in this case, a nation, rather than a vase – you own it. As Trump plans for next steps in Iran, cold-eyed pragmatists – whether they favored or opposed this latest U.S. military action – should hope he ignores Powell’s high-minded yet wrong-headed formulation. Read More
