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To: cosmicforce who wrote (378428)	7/25/2018 2:47:38 PM
From: Sun Tzu	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 541225

>> A guy who burns down a building undoes what it took months to do - does that make him more powerful than the architect and builder? So firstly, it shows that your building did not have adequate fire protection and you had no fire department and fire alarms either. In this analogy, the fire department is the institutions and constituents that Obama should have built to safeguard his ideas (note my objection to his 2nd term). If your bridge collapses when the first storm hits, you did not build a good bridge. Secondly, the US is considered the most powerful country in the world precisely because of the destructive power it possesses. Where do you think the US would have been without its nukes? So in a narrow sense, yes, that does show the fire bomber in your example is powerful. Trump's motivations don't matter. In fact, I am the kind of person who rarely cares about people's motivations or logic; they are secondary to the result of their actions. I don't want to imply that Trump is Hitler or Gandhi. Of course he is not! But he does share with them the quality of being a transformative leader. Whether or not his transformations are lasting remains to be seen. But at least he is trying. What transformation did Obama try to bring forth? Anyway - now I am really outta here...back to you in a few months...you may have the last word till then :) cheers, ST