In the month when “The Hunger Games” ruled the box office and President Barack Obama was on his way to a comfortable re-election, the price of Brent crude closed the month around $123 a barrel. [18] After Trump was elected, Stephens continued to oppose him: in February 2017, Stephens gave the Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture at the University of California, Los Angeles, and used the platform to denounce Trump’s attacks on the media. Not because their military is defeated on the battlefield, but because the leadership is unwilling to employ strategies that will crush the will of the enemy to resist, and instead lets itself be crushed by what should be comparitively minor considerations.
Author: New York Times
Published at: 2026-03-25 23:26:46
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