Comments | trisket876: To talk, or not to talk....or just to talk, or maybe there has been too much talk?

trisket876

To talk, or not to talk....or just to talk, or maybe there has been too much talk?

Mar 13, 2009 14:28

I found the following BBC article very interesting. Especially the portions quoted ( Read more... )

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datatroll March 14 2009, 15:28:48 UTC

It's the standard back peddling. He has to go from the "I WILL DO IT ALL!" Outlook that got him elected, to the "I will do the best I can." That is all he can really do ( ... )

revolution_grrl March 15 2009, 03:43:35 UTC

Ok, I'll give it a go. It seems to me that this article is sort of coming from a bridge from the total clusterfuck side to the rational solutions side. The President inherited a complete disaster that had been essentially ignored for years because the President who started it didn't want the messy job of trying to bring it to any kind of conclusion. He's been assembling experts to advise him since even before he took office, trying to get as good a handle as possible on the situation. He had a path, at least, to follow by the time he took office, as evidenced by the fact that some announcements on Afghanistan were made immediately. I think since then he and his war and security people have met with experts both military and civilian to try to find some way to unravel the Gordian knot ( ... )