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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: koan who wrote (789759)6/13/2014 4:40:14 PM
From: i-node  Read Replies (2) of 1575969
 
>> They did not want us there. So what do you think we could have done. They asked us to leave.

You don't know what happened. Publicly is one thing, privately is another.

Either way, Obama should have pushed back and said, "It is in our national interest to make certain this thing doesn't fall apart. We're going to stay, let's figure out how to handle the politics."

This was anticipated from the outset, it is what the Pentagon expected would happen, and it was the failure of Obama not to have renegotiated on SOFA. The point of the existing SOFA, which was a difficult negotiation, was to create a bridge to its expiration while maintaining the the prerogative of the incoming president. Everyone understood that. Except one guy, I guess.
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