The amount of police brutality has either gone way out of proportion or has just been in the national spotlight. Marco Rubio did talk a lot about police brutality and how it has escalated to very violent measures. He does say, "'The overwhelming and vast majority of law enforcement officers in this country are just trying to do their jobs," Rubio told Fox News' Bill O'Reilly. "It is troubling that there are groups and rhetoric out there now that is encouraging people to demonize law enforcement, to target law enforcement or in some cases, quite frankly, to misrepresent what law enforcement is trying to do.'" I agree with him here on how law enforcement is just trying to do their jobs, there are instances where there are definite evidence of people being brutalize, but the attention it is getting doesn't seem to be reaching the white house. This seems to be a national issue that we need to focus on since it's starting riots and people causing chaos in the streets. It's getting a little ridiculous and I definitely think that all the presidential candidates should be talking about this and worrying about the future of law enforcement.
Source:
http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/27/politics/marco-rubio-police-rhetoric/index.html
Friday, October 30, 2015
Thursday, October 29, 2015
America only recently left Iraq a few years ago and in that
time frame we have seen the rise of ISIS.
With the entire region in disarray trying to deal with ISIS and how to
fight them US troops may end up in Iraq and the Middle East in some capacity to
help fight and contain the threat of ISIS.
As the fight against the Islamic State seems to have come to a
standstill President Obama has been pressured to increase American military
presence and involvement. The recent
involvement of Russia and its apparent targeting of US backed rebel groups only
adds to the dangerous mixture and time constraint to fix the problem, if
America waits too long with Russia’s help Assad could regain control of Syria. This problem went from simply being a Middle
East conflict into a power play between two world powers. Over the past few months Obama has been
meeting with his military advisors to discuss his options, ranging from moving
forward with boots on the ground, establishing a no fly zone, continued
training of Iraqi soldiers, small strategic strikes against ISIS with US
special forces in conjunction with Iraqi security forces etc. All the options at the president’s disposal
shows the expanded role of the branch has acquired over time. Go back a hundred years no one would believe
the president could basically start a war around the world without the approval
or even a vote by congress. I personally hate the idea of the president
wielding such power as this. I
understand in times of crisis, such as America being attacked, the president
would have to use the military without congress but for actions like this
congress must be involved. We wonder why
people around consider America to be a bully this is why. We act unilaterally and without a lot of
help. Recently Obama has done better
with forming coalitions to deal with international crises but recently America
has been taking a larger role as it considers devoting combat troops. How can America champion democracy when we
have presidents who are so apt to use force instead of negotiating in
instances, granted the problems with ISIS would not be able to be solved with
diplomacy.
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Friday, October 23, 2015
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