Showing posts with label USA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label USA. Show all posts

Friday, 20 June 2008

Winnie the Pooh

"Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump on the back of his head behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming down stairs. But sometimes he thinks there really is another way if only he could stop bumping a minute and think about it."
Richard Danzig a top advisor on foreign policy to Barack Obama quoted this to a major foreign policy conference in Washington. Some people are painting this as a gaffe, I get the feeling that they are doing this more because they can't stomach the underlying message "America needs to rethink the middle east and the *cough* war on terror is not one that will ever be won"

All of this is the sort of refreshing stuff that I think we want from a Democrat in the White House a sense that the real world will leak back into the Commander in Chief's viewpoint which under the current office holder is clouded with the belief that throwing enough troops and contracts at the munitions & reconstruction industry can solve anything.

P.S. another blog post that I don't have to finish writing Lee Griffin on liberal left bleating about David Davis

Tuesday, 6 November 2007

Got to admire it

You are acting assistant attorney general, you have been given an assignment to put forward your opinion of one of the five interrogation techniques the United States government wants to use on prisoners they suspect to be terrorists. What do you do to ensure your opinion is valid? Go and get the US Army to carry it out on you.
I really admire the man's dedication to his job and show no surprise at all that he was one of the people who left the Justice Department when Alberto Gonzales turned up.