Posted on 02/13/2017 8:53:22 AM PST by Sir Napsalot
Full Title: David Brooks On Travel Ban: "We Have Offended The World"; "I'm Not Sure If It's Illegal, But It's Extremely Stupid"
PBS News: Syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks join Judy Woodruff to discuss the week’s news, .... Transcript, via PBS NewsHour:
DAVID BROOKS: .... (snip)
On the larger issue of the travel ban, our friend Charles Krauthammer of The Washington Post I think put it pretty well. I’m not sure it’s illegal, but it’s extremely stupid.
I’m a little uncomfortable with the idea of judges overruling presidents on national security matters. Nonetheless, so whether it’s unconstitutional or not, I leave to others. But it certainly has sucked the wind out of two or three weeks of this administration for no good reason.
There has never been evidence that people from these countries are disproportionately likely to commit terrorist acts. We have sent chaos to the airports. We have offended the world. We have derailed the administration. We have done it in such an incompetent way, the administration has, that people with perfectly legal residence have been widely inconvenienced.
And so it’s just been a screw-up from beginning to end, and so it’s just been a running derailment...
.... I don’t think there is a strategy.
There is world view. And Donald Trump’s world view is that it’s a dangerous, miserable place, people are out to get him, and he needs to strike them first. That’s been the world view from the beginning. And it’s the world view.
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
There has never been evidence that people from these countries are disproportionately likely to commit terrorist acts.
David Brooks’ “world” must begin and end with North America and the EU.
How lilly white and Eurocentrist of him.
Brooks is extremely stupid.
I’m on a 90 minute commute after work and usually listen to NPR. I hear Brooks a lot. I consider him a low intelligence progressive hack. He’s only good for comedy relief.
And because of that, I actually look forward to what he has to say. It’s fun.
The rest of the world is laughing at our stupidity already
I can remember when David Brooks was considered the NYT Conservative. For the life of me, I cannot figure out how he ever got that title. He is as left as they get and sometimes I think he may need professional help.
Ironically, the leftist New York Times readership likely believes David Brooks is too “right wing.”
This is a CLassic case of a person that should undergo a forced Move to IRAQ
What a panty wetter. Brooks better hope grandpas trust fund holds out.
No, Dave, what’s stupid is allowing murderers and terrorists to traverse our borders unimpeded. To hell with what “the world” thinks.
Pistols or swords?
We’ve “offended” the world by not wanting to take their garbage? Sorry Davy, I can’t hang with you on this one. America is my home. It’s not a landfill for trash and garbage from “the world”. OTOH: I don’t have a problem with “offending” the world.
Brooks needs to get the crease on his head pressed.
To Brooks, the “world” is the liberal media and liberal EU politicians and bureaucrats. No one else knows or cares about the immigration enforcement executive orders.
Murdering Islamic fundamentalist savages Have Offended The World”; “It’s Extremely Stupid”
Along with the rest of those who put on the garment of conservatism without embracing its soul.
David Brooks call for a ban on all fences and gates.
The idiot has country confused with free range loafing.
Screw the World and screw David Brooks, because neither one has America’s best interests at heart.
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Brooks offends me, so we’re even.
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