Новости за 28.03.2016

Max Boot, Commentary
The Brussels attacks revealed the price of this ACLU approach to fighting terrorists. It is now obvious that this tragedy, in which at least 30 innocent people were killed and hundreds injured, could have been avoided if only the European Union in general, and Belgium in particular, had systems in place for intelligence-sharing of the kind that the Patriot Act created by tearing down the artificial wall between intelligence and law-enforcement agencies.

T. Dalrymple, Spectator
This is perhaps not the best moment in history to extol migrants from the developing world or Eastern Europe, but the fact remains that without them my life, and I suspect the life of many other people in the West, would be much poorer and more constricted than it is.

Jose Cardenas, Foreign Policy
President Obama’s trip to Cuba this week certainly made history, at least in the strictest sense of the term. He indeed walked off Air Force One and set foot on Cuban soil, becoming the first president to do so since 1928. But it was hardly historic in the fullest meaning of the term — as in shock-and-awe, transformational historic.

Jeremy Kryt, The Daily Beast
The Jalisco New Generation Cartel is known for its hyper-aggressive, paramilitary tactics—now it’s bringing the terror to America’s doorstep.