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In fact, former Vice President Dick Chancy said that with respect to the time being taken to arrive at a policy for Afghanistan that President Obama was "dithering."
President George Bush's response to 9/11 was to trash careful deliberation and hastily proceed to initiate a conventional war against Iraq, when it was not at all certain that this kind of war would lead to the destruction of Al Queda or the capture of Osama bin Laden. And despite Bush's failure to achieve his policy goals, he never rendered his decision to the kind of deliberative process Barack Obama is using.Obama and Bush, however, have one thing in common with respect to war in the Middle East; they pursued these projects on an unquestionable premise. Bush had retribution for 9/11 as his goal; Obama has announced that the war in Afghanistan is "a war of necessity." In both cases, the existence of an unchallengeable premise could lead to disaster, so in Obama's case, the truth of the premise itself also needs to be part of the deliberations.[...] former Vice President Dick Chancy said that with respect to the time being taken to arrive at a policy for Afghanistan that President Obama was "dithering."See the full content of this document
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Obama's Leadership Style
I do not understand those people who criticize the president for taking his time to get public policy right, when much of the misery that has come to visit their lives is a result of public policy, in both the domestic and inte...
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