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Saturday, January 24, 2009
Job security has appeal these days
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
“After years of struggling to get their wages up, the nation’s workers are trying to find jobs that will simply last, at least through the deep recession,” says the New York Times. “…there is a new allure developing around jobs likely to keep a person employed, at reasonable pay, through a prolonged downturn.”
You mean, like working at a newspaper?
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Continue the good policies, dump the bad ones
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Good. From the New York Times:
“ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Two missile attacks launched from remotely piloted American aircraft killed at least 15 people in western Pakistan on Friday. The strikes suggested that the use of drones to kill militants within Pakistan’s borders would continue under President Obama.
Remotely piloted Predator drones operated by the Central Intelligence Agency have carried out more than 30 missile attacks since last summer against members of Al Qaeda and other terrorism suspects deep in their redoubts on the Pakistani side of the border with Afghanistan.”
Obama said during the campaign that he would take such steps, and it touched off a controversy. Then President Bush adopted and implemented the policy. As long as the strikes are carefully selected based on good intelligence, they should continue. Pakistan has no real control or governance over the areas in question, so it has no real complaints about what we’re doing there.
