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Bystanders to Genocide - Magazine - The Atlantic - 1 views

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  • They can defend the U.S. policy. This is the position of Richard Clarke, who believes, all things considered, that he and his colleagues did everything they could and should have done. "Would I have done the same thing again?" Clarke asks. "Absolutely. What we offered was a peacekeeping force that would have been effective. What [the UN] offered was exactly what we said it would be—a force that would take months to get there. If the UN had adopted the U.S. [outside-in] proposal, we might have saved some lives ... The U.S. record, as compared to everyone else's record, is not something we should run away from ... I don't think we should be embarrassed. I think everyone else should be embarrassed by what they did, or did not do."
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      steve santos on 05 Dec 11
       
      in the american sense of justification for the lack of probable involvement in the prevention and halting of the events at the time, in following the turn of social protocol and a country-state scale means of approach to handling the issues with militant and government officials. The two only being issue when they are one in the same entity and backed by the US already having previous engagement with the region, only then would more have been readily done with information being concrete if already stationed to a degree in the area, also taking into account the reservations of black hawk down, in the recent past
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Timeline: 1940s - YES! Magazine - 0 views

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      steve santos on 05 Dec 11
       
      Personally I am very fond of this turning point era in US history because it was the peak of civil and economics stirrings since the great depression. From a score board perspective, every group and ideal gained favor and support from the private sector that did not stir any elements of what the war was about in a hindering perspective or holding semblance to the cultural sense of how America and this nationalism sweep defined the enemy to be.
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      steve santos on 05 Dec 11
       
      (the turning point I refer to is the 1940's. I am not so sure this sticky note will stick to the era referred to in my comment)
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http://www.astcweb.org/public/publication/documents/Burkley Sept 2008 TJE1.pdf - 0 views

www.astcweb.org/public/publication/documents/Burkley Sept 2008 TJE1.pdf

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      steve santos on 01 Dec 11
       
      I do enjoy the differentiation between the two on the case of the subtle nature at the approach to giving arguments. For law, I am biased considering its the field I want to go in, but the power of the argument isn't always the forward notion of play in creating intent or persuasion in a court system. even a subtle lowly argument can be highly aided by a strong presentation if the legality persists. The science of persuasion is different per situation and need mold for its field of play especially within the legal system, but for the sake of the article it shows to be definitive in a footnote in policy in the courts where it is tested before it goes into the real world where it then has more freedom to expand and network. 
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PublicAffairs Books: THE POLITICAL BRAIN - 8 views

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  • managing positive and negative feelings should be the primary goals of a political campaign
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      steve santos on 03 Oct 11
       
      This is how I always felt of the ideal means of a reform to the process of choosing a candidate and a general approach to issues of policy in america.  Its more of what they stand for to how they stand for the people rather than presenting that yes, they will have agreeing terms within the people of their political party but presenting that there is not one main means of appeal for all. coming from different faiths, economic situations and nationalities, the appeal to all is not realistic and in the awareness of that more compromise can be made and the retrospective of the state of affairs can be seen for people to be complacent with any step, minuscule or otherwise, towards a policy that works to accommodate all and be okay knowing in order to all share part of the policy "pie" people need to take cuts to divide it evenly as many would rally to include as many as possible. Rather it'd be best to know that it will not be full to what people request and a means to manage that is just as vital as enacting any one particular policy
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Edge: WHAT MAKES PEOPLE VOTE REPUBLICAN? By Jonathan Haidt - 9 views

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  • Religion and political leadership are so intertwined across eras and cultures because they are about the same thing: performing the miracle of converting unrelated individuals into a group.
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      steve santos on 03 Oct 11
       
      this i found very ironic with the explicit divide drawn from church an state as a means of policy in itself and then how Durkneim's statement shows how even if it is said they are to be separate, the structure of society and the basis of any one faith have systematically been intertwined to meet a means of advancing any one collective's ideals. Its a presentation of faith and religion as a ends to a means of structure and justification to the way in which things are done in government and within the personal experience in defining which is the one right way to cultivate the beliefs of a majority and all things unrelated into a group. As its stated in this segment: a miracle.
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Joanna Moorhead on the best country to give birth | Life and style | The Guardian - 18 views

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      steve santos on 12 Sep 11
       
      its very interesting to think of these notions of morality and personal motif in the definition of defining the line between the polis and the market when there are many limiting factors dissolving the two of them. where there is no gubernatorial sense of how to allocate resources to feed people; very little is any, and then the polis struggling to make ends meat and water of daily survival to bring into consideration that of others. certain things then become "nice problems to have" in western civilization when drinking water is abundant and famine is not an actuality as opposed to how it is in Niger where life to death is over, or under depending how you look at it, in regards to the access to something so crucial as clean water
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Reconsiderations: John Rawls and Our Plural Nation - June 11, 2008 - The New York Sun - 6 views

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      steve santos on 12 Sep 11
       
      in this statement alone it shows the constructs for society in the sense that past the foundation of a sphere of thought can arise a newer notion and connection of old world ideals to the development and spread of them in the existential realm of modern society from faith basis to that of the developmental acceptance of multiple doctrines of thought
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