Felix G. Rohatyn, U.S. Ambassador to France from 1997 to 2001, offers his view in the IHT opinion piece, Executions in America: Dead to the world, that the death penalty – viewed by our enlightened cousins as “a throwback to the Middle Ages” – in America hampers our ability to secure agreements on unrelated […]
Archive for January, 2006
Europe, the death penalty, North Korea, and enlightenment
Posted by 26 Jan 2006, 1:49 pm in Uncategorized. 0 CommentsEarly this evening my Grandfather passed away at age 87. He was a husband, a father, a Grandfather, a WWII veteran, a farmer, a general wheeler-dealer, and a good man. He was the youngest and last of his siblings to pass away, the others all going between the ages of 85-95 or so. He […]
An alternate point of view; nukes for all
Posted by 17 Jan 2006, 9:26 am in Uncategorized. 0 CommentsUnfortunately this is a fairly consistent line of thinking in much of the Muslim world, and applies many of the same arguments that the DPRK employs. I won’t take the time to write any rebuttal; logic doesn’t seem to dent these sorts of arguments.