What if Sharon had been an Arab politician?
From a BBC round-up of Arab reaction to Sharon’s stroke:
One Palestinian listed what he described as Mr Sharon’s crimes and then said he wished the Arab world had a leader like him.
Several Arab papers sound a similar note.
“Courage and objectivity require us to admit that Ariel Sharon has lived all his life for his people’s benefit,” a commentary in Jordan’s al-Dustur reads.
“If he were an Arab leader and behaved as he has done in Israel, he would have been the idol of the masses from the Atlantic to the Gulf.”
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)
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