"Time columnist Joe Klein (12/3/09)was not altogether impressed by Obama's announcement of a 30,000 troop escalation in Afghanistan (an "iffy proposition," as Klein put it).
Then he describes the better way:
"Ronald Reagan would have done it differently. He would have told a story. It might not have been a true story, but it would have had resonance. He might have found, or created, a grieving spouse--a young investment banker whose wife had died in the World Trade Center--who enlisted immediately after the attacks ... and then gave his life, heroically, defending a school for girls in Kandahar. Reagan would have inspired tears, outrage, passion, a rush to recruiting centers across the nation."
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Ironically, a quarter-century ago, Reagan helped create today's nightmare.
ReplyDeleteWhat's Klein saying - that it's better to be schmoozed into approving of wrongdoing? That he'd sooner be ripped off by a conman than a sneak thief?
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