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 ...
The only countries allowed to be offended are those that have no border controls, unlimited immigration and no background checks...
(crickets)
And I yell and object, etc., then laugh, then get on with the day.
I’m happy when Li’l Davey is “triggered”.
David Brooks is stupid.
Only a rabid lefty would worry about who is “offended” by doing the right thing.
David Brooks On Travel Ban: “We Have Offended The World”; “It’s Extremely Stupid” (tr)
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What he is really saying- We Have Offended The [Muslim] World
And I certainly hope we have. It long past time for them to be held accountable for their ambitions to control the entire world.
The world has offended us. Repeatedly.
The world has offended us. Repeatedly.
Defund PBS.
Every time I see David Brooks, I read David Brock.
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.
That guy is an absolute idiot? He isn’t sure if it is legal? A few minutes spent on google and he can find the laws that do give the president power to ban immigration - even for targeting a religious group. (And by the way, since when is islam a race? That just shows their ignorance when they call him “racist for banning muslims”)
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