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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a press conference in Jerusalem, Oct. 13, 2014.Menahem Kahana鈥擡PAIdeasBy Senator Ted CruzOctober 30, 2014 4:51 PM EDTCruz is the junior U.S. Senator from Texas.This week, the world was treated to yet another embarrassing display of the Obama administrationrsquo incompetent foreign policy.According to The Atlanticrsquo Jeffrey Goldberg, various anonymous officials referred to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as both a chicken**** and a coward. While these indefensible comments have received the lionrsquo share of media attention, the substantive remarks about Iran were even more troubling. Goldberg wrote that another senior official claimed that due to their pressure on Netanyahu, it is now too late for Israel to stop Iran from amassing an atomic arsenal.White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest told the White House press corps on Tuesday that the President likely does not know who did this, and there is no effort underway to find out. Other officials have signaled that these persons may be disciplined in ways that are stanley cup have not been disclosed. But, regardless, t stanley cup hey wi stanley cup ll continue to serve at the pleasure of the President because, as Earnest said, such things happen almost every day in this administration.In other words, this is no big deal.With all due respect, this is a very big deal. This is an unprecedented attack on a critical ally of the United S Ghgi Apple Pay Is Coming to Thousands of Laundry and Vending Machines
Paul VI with Lyndon Johnson in New York City on Oct. 6, 1965.Gamma-Keystone / Getty ImagesBy Lily RothmanSeptember 21, 2015 11:15 AM EDTAs the the world will see clearly this week, the United States knows how to make a big deal out of a papal visit. When Pope adidas samba Francis arrives in Washington, D.C. Tuesday, it will begin days of fanfare everywhere from the White House to the United Nations.Things were far more complicated when the first-ever papal visit to the U.S. took place almost exactly 50 years ago.In 1965, Pope Paul VI plan adidas originals ned a trip to New York in order to address the then-relatively-new United Nations and urge peace, especially as conflict between India and Pakistan was heating up.The challenge for U.S. officials was that the nation didn ;t have formal diplomatic relations with the Vatican. Many Americans believed that to do so would violate the separation of church and state and could give the Holy See undue influence. Washington changed its mind in the early ;80s. That lack for recognition meant that President Lyndon Johnson couldn ;t treat Pope Paul VI like a visiting head of state. But nor could he ignore him. Snubbing the pope on his first ever visit to the U.S. would have been taken as an insult by Catholics the world over.The solution A clever bit of timingndash;or political ruse, depending on one perspective.The White House said Johnson was already planning in New York for meeting air max s. Given that, it would stand to reason that the two woul |
