Obama Is Having Greater Success Taking Terrorists Out of Commission Than Bush Did

Responding to criticism from former Vice President Cheney that President Obama is making the nation more vulnerable to terrorism, the president’s National Security Adviser, Gen. Jim Jones (Ret.), told ABC News in an exclusive interview that actually the reverse is true: President Obama’s greater success with international relations has meant more terrorists put out of commission.

“This type of radical fundamentalism or terrorism is a threat not only to the United States but to the global community,” Jones said. “The world is coming together on this matter now that President Obama has taken the leadership on it and is approaching it in a slightly different way – actually a radically different way – to discuss things with other rulers to enhance the working relationships with law enforcement agencies – both national and international."

Jones said that “we are seeing results that indicate more captures, more deaths of radical leaders and a kind of a global coming-together by the fact that this is a threat to not only the United States but to the world at-large and the world is moving toward doing something about it.”

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Moving Day

Last week there was a highway news sign on Commonwealth Avenue:

SAT-SUN
BU MOVING DAY
EXPECT DELAYS

It happened. There's enough discarded furniture on the sidewalks of Brighton and Allston to furnish a hotel. A rather trashy hotel, of course.

I have read in "Adapting to Affluence" that the Jews of New York's East Side have started this minhag in the early 20th century, discarding old furniture on erev Pesakh. The city had to mobilize extra garbage men that week.