During an interview on MSNBC, President Obama said there is “less war and less violence around the world today than 40 years ago.”
And yet fewer World Trade Center towers.
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I don’t recall 1975 as being particularly violent, after Saigon fell I mean, although the Lebanese Civil War had begun. (I had to look it up.) See here for a summary of 2014 (“More Hype But Fewer Dead”).
He might be right, but I’m neither Lebanese nor Ukrainian.
40 years ago, Gerald Ford wasn’t trying to give nukes to our biggest enemy(they had thousands) and we weren’t letting in millions of Russians without even checking to see if maybe they were out to kill us…among many other things.
I don’t recall 1975 as being particularly violent, after Saigon fell I mean, although the Lebanese Civil War had begun. (I had to look it up.) See here for a summary of 2014 (“More Hype But Fewer Dead”).
He might be right, but I’m neither Lebanese nor Ukrainian.
I think he meant to say that there was less war and less violence around HIS world, now that he relocated from Chicago to Washington, D.C.
Oh okay; that makes sense.
Of course, he’s not counting all the killings committed by all the Muslim groups around the world.
40 years ago, Gerald Ford wasn’t trying to give nukes to our biggest enemy(they had thousands) and we weren’t letting in millions of Russians without even checking to see if maybe they were out to kill us…among many other things.
Yeah Barry, great comparison.