Boot (I made him the link) makes that point that none of the leaders in Iraq were intellectually honest, none without corruption, none without leadership flaws and yet Iraq is reasonably close to being a success.
Fouad Ajami's pessimism on Hamid Karzai not only posits Karzai with a deeper level of dishonesty than Maliki, Ajami also notes that Obama and his team is making the diplomatic situation worse (and Ajami thinks that, unlike W., Obama doesn't seem to be a person willing to challenge his own assumptions.)
I imagine we all agree with Mr. Ajami on that one.
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Optimist = somebody who doesn't understand the situation.
...press secretary Robert Gibbss dismay is reserved for Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell and the disappointing negativity of his admission that the single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president.
McConnell, you see, is supposed to say that he will try very hard to work with the president after the election. But it is blindingly clear that nothing of significance will be enacted. Over the next two years, Republicans will not be able to pass anything of importance to them such as a repeal of Obamacare because of the presidential veto. And the Democrats will be too politically weakened to advance, let alone complete, Obamas broad transformational agenda.
That would have to await victory in 2012....Over the next two years, the real action will be not in Congress but in the bowels of the federal bureaucracy. Democrats will advance their agenda on Obamacare, financial reform, and energy by means of administrative regulation, such as carbon-emissions limits imposed unilaterally by the Environmental Protection Agency.
But major congressional legislation to complete Obamas social-democratic agenda? Not a chance. Thats why McConnell has it right. The direction of the country will be determined in November 2012 when either Obama gets a mandate to finish building his New Foundation, or the Republicans elect one of their own to repeal it, or whatever (by then) remains repealable....
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IOW, IIUC "2012" = another way of saying that KIMMIE + MOUD + OSAMA, ...@Etal WILL DETERMINE US POLICIES, NOT the Fed + Voters + OWG America = OWG Amerika.
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