you don t whknow what his motivations are and that s beyond the pale. peter, hold on. i understand, but there are other people on the panel. quickly, go ahead. the peace process makes it much harder for the palestinians to come back and negotiate when they think they can get a stay through the u.n. first of all, with all due respect, you re both wrong. this is not unprecedented. the bush administration, at the very end of george w. bush s term, abstained from a u.n. resolution on benghazi. the reagan administration supported a u.n. resolution criticizing israel when it attacked in iraq and withheld weapon sales. it s not unprecedented, first of all. it s not even known. in fact, the bush administration did it at the very end of the bush administration. you re wrong, it s not unprecedented. second of all, we have to understand what settlements
perhaps, barring muslims that would help their recruitment. and, you know, in germany just, what, two months ago, you had an incident where the german authorities were desperately searching for a terrorist, and it was other syrian refugees who found that person, called the police, the police couldn t understand their broken german, so they took a picture they tied him up and took a picture and walked him down to the police station and showed him who they had in their apartment. so the risks are real but the potential allies in dealing with terrorists are also some of these same folks who it s very important to work with. the response from the president-elect and the president has been different. the president-elect i mean, the president has been a little bit more reserved and measured in his comments. a little bit? here s what peter biner writes about that. he looks at it as a conflict
declare big government s war on poverty a failure? michael tomasky in the daily beast said rubio is just plain wrong. it s high time to say the war on poverty was a success, a wild success by nearly every meaningful measure. but no one thinks so, and a big part of the reason is that most democrats are afraid to say so. they damn well better start if we really are going to be raising the minimum wage and tackling inequality, someone needs to be willing to say to the american people that these kinds of approaches get results. cynthia tucker is a visiting professor at the university of georgia. peter biner is with the atlantic. cynthia, have we been fighting the war on poverty for all of those 50 years? no, we haven t. you know, we had barely begun to fight when by the 1970s, richard nixon was elected followed by reagan who declared that poor people were poor through their own fault.
declare big government s war on poverty a failure? michael tomasky in the daily beast said rubio is just plain wrong. it s high time to say the war on poverty was a success, a wild success by nearly every meaningful measure. but no one thinks so, and a big part of the reason is that most democrats are afraid to say so. they damn well better start if we really are going to be raising the minimum wage and tackling inequality, someone needs to be willing to say to the american people that these kinds of approaches get results. cynthia tucker is a visiting professor at the university of georgia. peter biner is with the atlantic. cynthia, have we been fighting the war on poverty for all of those 50 years? no, we haven t. you know, we had barely begun to fight when by the 1970s, richard nixon was elected followed by reagan who declared that poor people were poor through their own fault. the nation was tired of hearing
so, yes, the economy has changed. and we need a stronger social safety net. very quickly, peter, you wrote recently about john edwards, interestingly, being ahead of his time on this issue. who picks up that mantle going forward in your estimation? well, bill de blasio has picked it up in new york, proposing universal child care, preschool care which a lot of studies show can really boost the chances for poor kids going to college and succeeding. i think we re going to see there is a huge opportunity for any national democrat who really picks up this mantle and makes it his own. john edwards, he may have had a lot of problems in his personal life, but he was really ahead of time in raising this issue. thing is a lot of opportunity