3 News Stories You Should Read Today – 3/19/2018
McCabe firing: Trump’s ‘great day for democracy’ smacks of dictatorship
“If you [only] have products created by white guys in their 20s, you’re gonna miss the mark.”
When you think about the changing demographics we’re seeing in this nation, when you think about the workforce today and dual-income families now, it’s completely different than when I grew up back in the 1960s. By 2044, what we call minorities today in our country, when you add them all up, they will be the majority. If you don’t have diversity at the table, there’s no chance you’re gonna see it. You’re just not. If you’re a VC and you’re about deal flow, you’re missing all kind of deals, because the deals you’re investing in are what you’ve known before.
Is it time the US apologized for invading Iraq?
Fifteen years since the invasion of Iraq, we ask retired US Brig Gen Mark Kimmitt about war crimes and the war’s legacy.
Actions taken by the US at the beginning of the war continue to have reverberating consequences, including allegations that US detention centres such as Camp Buccabecame breeding grounds for armed groups in Iraq, and helped to lay the groundwork for the formation of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS).
“I was worried at the time that the mass incarceration of what the troops on the ground believed to be security threats would come back to haunt us,” says Kimmitt. “I told that to my colleagues and I told that to my superiors.” While he agrees the Iraq War may have inspired violent groups, Kimmitt insists ISIL was not created in Iraq.
