While on the mark, Ros-Lehtinen's statement only scratches the surface of how contrary to US law and the goals of Palestinian economic development and peace US financial assistance to the Palestinians truly is.
While international law calls on submarines to surface and raise their national flags when cruising in the territorial waters of a foreign nation, the submarine didn't.
While international law calls on submarines to surface and raise their national flags when cruising in the territorial waters of a foreign nation, the submarine did not.
That will make a welcome change, but it will only scratch the surface of the main problem: the misuse of criminal law at all levels for political or commercial ends.
Letters like the Democrats' letter to Holder representing constituents' concerns are not unusual and are "part of the propaganda war that goes on beneath the surface all the time and part of their efforts to undermine law enforcement, " said Bob Blitzer, who led the FBI's domestic terrorism section in the 1990s.
Airships demonstrate a law of increasing returns: doubling the length increases the surface area (and hence weight) by a factor of four while the volume (and hence lifting capacity) goes up by a factor of eight.