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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: combjelly who wrote (772426)3/1/2014 7:09:27 PM
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>> What could Obama have done?

I don't think he could have done anything because he is inherently a weak individual. No surprise to anyone.

>> Realistically speaking, there wasn't anything to do

There wasn't anything for an outgoing president to do; Bush was a lame duck at that point. Yet, he was strong with Medvedev. And Bush did make a commitment to rebuild the Georgian military. Which, of course, didn't survive the election of you-know-who.

The problem here is that presidents cannot be weak. We tried that with Carter. It just doesn't pay. Even though Clinton wasn't as bad as Carter, his failure to take bin Laden resulted in 9/11, and his failure to take out Saddam (after he became belligerent in the face of Clinton's weakness) left it for Bush to deal with.

I don't know when you fools will learn but you to have a man, not a pantywaist, as president.
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