Share the View: Arming Ukraine

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THE LATEST OPINIONS FROM BLOOMBERG VIEW

FEBRUARY 10, 2015 bloombergview.com

DECLASSIFIED Josh Rogin: "Secretary of State John Kerry told lawmakers during a private reception in Germany that he personally supports sending lethal aid to the Ukrainian military, even though President Barack Obama has yet to make a decision on whether to say yes to Ukraine's arms request." Read more... MIDDLE EAST Noah Feldman: "Jordan's King Abdullah II was in battle gear last week, quoting Clint Eastwood and bombing Islamic State targets in retaliation for the horrific burning-alive of a Jordanian pilot. Is this a sign that Jordan is entering the war against the insurgent group in earnest, or is it a temporary show for a stunned Jordanian public?" Read more... COMPANIES Justin Fox: "It's pretty popular these days to dump on Milton Friedman's famous claim that the social responsibility of business is to increase profits. ... Corporations play a pretty major role, often the decisive one, in determining the rules by which they play." Read more... WALL STREET Matt Levine: "Finance is about managing and allocating risk, and one of the most important risks in the corporate world is the risk of looking slightly stupid." Read more... GAY RIGHTS Feldman: "An outright confrontation between the state of Alabama and the U.S. Supreme Court on the question of gay marriage has come two steps closer." Read more... LATIN AMERICA The Editors: "By making administration loyalist Aldemir Bendine the new head of Brazil's state-run oil giant Petrobras, President Dilma Rousseff has demonstrated that she's more interested in protecting her party's interests than restoring the crown jewel of Brazil's economy." Read more... JOBS Barry Ritholtz: "Friday's jobs numbers were big, and the revisions below the surface were huge. Yet even before the release, the birther/vaxxer/flat-earther crowd had warned us about phony numbers. As public policy, this kind of conspiracy thinking can cause the deaths of infants and the elderly."Read more... WORK Megan McArdle: "People who voted for San Francisco's new 'living-wage law,' which will eventually push the minimum wage to $15 an hour, were probably thinking about the needy workers who would find their budgets a little roomier after their paychecks got a boost. They probably weren't thinking about the demise of beloved local stores like Borderlands, a science-fiction bookstore that will close its doors by March 31." Read more... POLITICS Ramesh Ponnuru: "Scott Walker, the Republican governor of Wisconsin, is leading some presidential-primary polls in Iowa and New Hampshire. ... Whether his current lead can last will depend on the answer to six questions." Read more... SPORTS Kavitha A. Davidson: "New York Knicks owner James Dolan probably deals with disgruntled fans all the time. You'd think he'd be a little better at it." Read more...