Today President Obama spoke briefly to the press about yesterday’s mass shooting in San Bernardino, and he began by noting: “So many Americans sometimes feel as if there’s nothing we can do about it.” But what’s the “it” we’re talking about here? Is it just our spectacular and never-ending run of mass shootings? Because if…
The always excellent Greg Sargent makes a great point this morning at the Plum Line: Republicans have no one to blame but themselves for the quandary Donald Trump is putting them in. Just as Southern conservatives could have saved themselves from looking like racist neanderthals desperate to keep a symbol of hate and slavery flying…
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like. we walked away from the league of nations. we pulled everybody out of europe. we just came home. we erected big trade barriers, we came home and isolated ourselves. that was the right word, from the world. how did that work out? well, you can drop a plum line from that set of decisions to the great depression with a d, not a recession. great depression, the rise of sa fascism in the second world war. we learned that lesson. we did the right thing coming out of the second world war. it would be a geopolitical disaster of epic proportion for us to step back from the world at this moment when autocrats like vladimir putin are seeking to run the table. danger ahead. we need to stay in the game. yes, we do. admiral james stavridis, thank you very much for being on this morning. now, in the city of malang,
ukraine over to the butcher of syria. turn ukraine over to vladimir putin. that we need to just quit and surrender and become isolationists like we did after world war i. what do you say to them? i say take a look at history. and what i mean by that is, we ve seen this movie before. in the 1930s, when the united states checked out league of nations, pulled everything back to the united states. tried to build walls, create barriers around the united states. how did that turn out? well, we had a great depression. with a d. we ended up with a plum line you can drop to the rise of fascism and the second world war. we ve seen the movie. what we need to be doing and i think, still, there s broad bipartisan consensus here on the importance of what s happening and how we need to stand with the ukrainians, gather the allies, meet force by force, where necessary. and by doing all of that, we