The Barak deal was not just a lousy one, already impossible, but additionally
double-impossible as elections were coming up in both USA and Israel, kind of really funny...
Especially for 2-party USA, where the lack of continuity in furrin politics is often 100%,
or at a minimum the risk of it.
100% proved this time, when Dangling Chad Bush started out by reversing everything he
could possible reverse in just some short months.
Ilmarinen
Btw, everyone knows this all over the globe, but one should not talk about it, especially
not in USA, although EU has made a somewhat respectless official undiplomatic
transatlantic contact on this old dilemma long time ago.
One solution would be to replace the pseudo-dangling-chad-democracy of USA with a
regular dictatorship, representing the continuity for policies and promises.
However, the EU-paper, postmarked some 6 years ago, focused more on US-length of
pre-election campaigns, and always non-majority, weak post-election wag-the-dog presidents,
and the genius of the USA catch-2-party, checks-and-balance system, to interleave elections to fix
what went wrong last time. (that is, leaving close to nill time inbetween to work on
actual issues)
Minor crises timed correctly and just after the just elected minority-president has got his
100 days, and there is no time to the smartly (for domestic US balance) reformed
chance to switch either house or senate to the opposite party, and another 2 years
for the next major election.
however, adding up the 1.5 year long pre-election campaigns, and that 0.5 year long
post-election wag-the-dog stuff, kind of nill time inbetween.
Plus that issue on first and second term, dead ducks,etc... |
