Thursday, July 1, 2010

The Afghanistan Paradox: When the War's Defenders Make the Case for Why We Should Stay, They End Up Making the Case for Why We Should Go

The President is clearly a very intelligent person. His mastery of cultural issues (e.g. the Philly race speech) and policy issues (e.g. his Baltimore showdown with repugs) is beyond reproach.



And this is why I have a hard time keeping any optimism that he is NOT either a hopelessly craven co.ward (afraid of 'making a mistake' or of offending anyone...) or a corporatist who..re who has sold the country out to the powers that be in the status quo.



I'm afraid he's one or the other and the most I can hope for is that he's a coward who could one day become motivated to achieve that which I know he understands has to be done to turn this nation's descent around.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

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