And of course ALL of you critical of Carson seem to have selective Amnesia..
When I quoted Obama as saying our military on purpose are "air-raiding villages killing civilians"..
YOU hollered OUT of Context...
But of course NONE of you seem to consider Dr. Carson has been quoted grossly out of context!
Is there a context where excusing a wife-beater ever sounds good?
Which is worse?
A single blow done ONCE which simply knocked a person out
OR
A comment that encouraged the terrorists to strap bombs on kids to blow up when US soldiers handed out candy? Just to remind you of the "out of context" "air raiding villages, killing civilians"!
THESE words encouraged as the following Harvard study proves the continual killings by the terrorists and YOU equate that with a single blow??
THE EMBOLDENMENT EFFECT
That asked the simple question:
"Are insurgents in Iraq emboldened by voices in the news media expressing dissent or calling for troop withdrawals from Iraq?
The resounding answer WAS YES!!! according to Radha Iyengar, a Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in health policy research at Harvard and Jonathan Monten of the Belfer Center at the university's Kennedy School of Government.
Using data on attacks and variation in access to international news across Iraqi provinces, we identify an “emboldenment” effect by comparing the rate of insurgent attacks in areas with higher and lower access to information about U.S news after public statements critical of the war.
In Iraqi provinces that were broadly comparable in social and economic terms, attacks increased between 7 percent and 10 percent following what the researchers call "high-mention weeks," like the two just before the November 2006 election.
If the Harvard study is right, we may be looking at a virtuous circle: Less violence means less media coverage, which in turn means less violence, says the Wall Street Journal.
