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Claire Berlinski
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I agree--and surely you would, if you gave it a bit of thought--that this was a wasted opportunity. If you had published it side by side with a piece written by people **on whom this plan was recently tested,** readers would have been better informed. @nytopinion #Afrin.
The piece you ran was written by a PR firm hired because of its ability to place editorials like that in the NYT. Why not ask @vvanwilgenburg who he recommends to write a similar piece from #Afrin? And why not commission several more--
Putin: Russia Has a Plan to Restore Peace in Syria
Assad: I have a Plan to Restore Peace in Syria
Khamenei: Iran has a Plan to Restore Peace in Syria
Macron: France has a Plan to Restore Peace in Syria
Guterres: The UN has a Plan to Restore Peace in Syria
MBS: The Saudis have...
I am actually serious. Run them on the same page, side-by-side--ideally, with a rebuttal from the leading politician of the country's opposition Party, assuming he exists and isn't in jail? Not as a joke, but so that people can look at this seriously?
And can gauge for themselves who is even beginning to sound as if he's thinking seriously? Running something like this, choked out of a Beltway lobbying firm--how does that help your readers? How does it help *your* reputation for being a serious newspaper?
If you were able to use the NYT's prestige to host a genuine public debate, among the real power players here, you'd show what a free press is *for.* You'd achieve something only Americans could do.
And you could conclude by asking, "So, what is the United States' plan?" And your readers would have a better basis for assessing whether it's nonsensical. Why not do it? If I were the editor of that page, I'd do it in a heartbeat. Why wouldn't you?
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Everything about Trump, his unfitness, his enthusiasm for authoritarianism, his unfriendliness to the alliance structure that has prevented great-power conflict since 1945 was obvious from the first moment. Americans voted for it. They were idiots, and their decision was immoral.
But living in a democracy means, "You have to accept the outcome of the election, however much you deplore it." He can't be removed from office unless Mueller comes up with evidence so stunning as to persuade the GOP members of the Senate to vote for it.
It is not likely that he will. The GOP Senators are accountable to their voters, who *voted* to destroy the US' relationship with its democratic allies and both align with Russia and become more like Russia. This is what they wanted and still want.
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Le texte de la lettre d'Emmanuel Macron liberation.fr/france/2019/01… via @libe Has anyone pointed out that these protests are a solution to the problem they're expressing? Getting together once a week and becoming a cheerful mob is an end in itself.
The movement has revealed that many in France are acutely lonely and bored. Getting people off the streets (or at least, persuading them not to do so much damage when they're on them) will require taking the psychological aspect of this seriously.
I don't know what would provide a substitute, but imagine if this energy could be transformed into something constructive. I don't think the majority of the GJs truly *want* to learn more about the budget, have a serious political debate, or exercise a personal line-item veto--
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And the burden is on the Gilets Jaunes to articulate a governing philosophy that's not only *not* ludicrous on the face of it but which might be an improvement on things or France, which happens to be one of the world's best governed countries.
So far, the ideas they're suggesting are nuts.

And the means by which many are advocating them are disgusting: violence, physically attacking ministers and the free press, sending savage, racist death threats to elected ministers, brawling with the police ...
and then sticking their follow citizens with a massive, multi-billion clean-up Euro bill after every one these expressions of "colère." Harming property, and honest businesses, tanking the economy, and thus making it vastly *less* likely that they'll get what they want--
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