Peak of their careers will get a federal appointment and move sideways into the federal judiciary. So theres a lot to be said for this idea. But the problem is it contradicts the idea of having the Career Civil Service model where you start off as a junior person in the very lowest court and work your way up. Because the whole point of having these sort of experienced dignified people is theyre going to start off at a relatively high level, and not want to start out in the low courts making 5 kwi a month. So theres some contradiction there that needs to be worked out. The decision also calls for a significant reform in the court system. And both of these are apparently designed to address the law of local protectionism. Courts at a given administrative level tend to be answerable to Political Authority at the same level. Because their personnel appointments are controlled at that level and their funding is controlled at that level. So theyre not subject to any meaningful control from s
Comparison was to compare enough in iraq, there was a huge stabilization of the situation. Refugees came back from turkey. Lets imagine now that the u. S. Did not intervene in 91, what would have happened to this refugee camp in turkey . Trust me. You have the same scenario inside turkey would have been an extremely bad civil war. It shows entered sbr at the right moment, in syria, the idea was not to send troops. The idea it was going against the strategy of beshar in a very efficient way. Thats one thing. The second thing is and this is crucial. This is the most difficult. There is no clear thought on what im going to say. But the tradeoff between shortterm and longterm, lets take two examples. The drones in yemen and the drones in afghanistan. In both cases the drones are in a way useful because theyre killing enemies. From time to time, they are not enemies, they are mistakes but basically you can say that its useful. But at the same time, you know that drones are very, very, very
Not widely heard in the white communities. But the b or flip side would be heard even less. What we discovered quickly is how many of the bside songs were directly related to the civil rights movement. Since theres very few data bases and none of them are complete on all gospel music, didnt know that. We didnt know the sheer number of songs that had very overt songs like there aint no segregation in heaven type songs, at a time when possessing one of those songs, much less singing it was a very dangerous thing in the deep south. You could get killed for a lot of things in the deep south, but singing that sort of song outloud, well, thats a risk. The texas ranger hall of fame, it was set up in 1976 for the 175th anniversary of the rangers. And honors at this point 30 rangers who made major contributions to the service or gave their lives under heroic circumstances. We have paintings or portraits of all of those rangers. They really begin with steven f. Austin. Austin was very successful
And jihadist islam more generally enjoy another victory over a superpower. I think there are many jihadists in afghanistan and around the world who believe that they successfully confronted the soviet union and defeated it. That empowered the movement in ways that have become extremely dangerous for us not only in south asia, but worldwide. And we cannot end up leaving the region in a situation where they can draw the same conclusion that now theyve defeated the United States as well. That is something that i think we ought to keep in mind as a strategic consequence of the way they manage the transition. Theres another point that i want to make. Getting afghanistan right does not require overinvestment on the part of the United States. Its very important to understand that what we need to do for success in afghanistan does not require us to bankrupt the United States, it does not require an openended, uncontrolled commitment of resources. Which is unpopular with the American People. Wh
Protecting the military and protecting them. We need to encourage good relations between jordan and egypt. And jordan and saudi arabia. We need to let them know that we are dependable. What i said before it is very true. People rely on the United States. Aople have to know we are dependable ally. It is good policy for us to be a dependable ally. It is also good policy for us in terms of what we need. Al qaeda was planning. And putting. We were not going after them. When the soviet Union Russians were thrown at afghanistan, we sort of pact that the one home. We allow that country to fester instead of making sure that the taliban did not rear its ugly head. We cannot afford to do that anymore. Feel thatt people they are tired. They are all tied. We have responsibilities as the leading power and as a responsibility to ourselves. It is one of those moments in our life in everybodys life. We have to be vigilant. We need to work to make sure that the people who would do us harm prevented fro