Christianity is being eradicated from Iraq.
… Christianity is being eradicated from Iraq. That’s according to the Hudson Institute, which was a neo-con outfit before neo-conservatism even existed.
Stuff happens, I guess.
Author: Mark Kleiman
Professor of Public Policy at the NYU Marron Institute for Urban Management and editor of the Journal of Drug Policy Analysis. Teaches about the methods of policy analysis about drug abuse control and crime control policy, working out the implications of two principles: that swift and certain sanctions don't have to be severe to be effective, and that well-designed threats usually don't have to be carried out.
Books:
Drugs and Drug Policy: What Everyone Needs to Know (with Jonathan Caulkins and Angela Hawken)
When Brute Force Fails: How to Have Less Crime and Less Punishment (Princeton, 2009; named one of the "books of the year" by The Economist
Against Excess: Drug Policy for Results (Basic, 1993)
Marijuana: Costs of Abuse, Costs of Control (Greenwood, 1989)
UCLA Homepage
Curriculum Vitae
Contact: Markarkleiman-at-gmail.com
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Shouldn't we be outraged at religious persecution, especially against a non-violent group?
Damned right we should. Better than outrage would have been prevention.
We were rightly outraged at the genocide of the Khmer Rouge, but our bombing and invasion of Cambodia had something to do with the destabilization of their government and the subsequent events. We may have excused ourselves because we thought we had good intentions, but the pattern was similar.