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Barack Obama aide: Why Winnie the Pooh should shape US foreign policy

by Edmund Jenks | June 17, 2008 at 04:23 pm

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This is how serious a Barack Obama foreign policy would look after he assumes office. If one thinks the United States might be looking weak in the view of the rest of the world ... NOW ... just think how we would look under an Obama Administration with Richard Danzig as, say, Secretary of State!

Folks, we are just flyin' down the highway toward "Carter's Second Term"!

Richard Danzig, who served as Navy Secretary under President Clinton and is tipped to become National Security Adviser in an Obama White House, told a major foreign policy conference in Washington that the future of US strategy in the war on terrorism should follow a lesson from the pages of Winnie the Pooh, which can be shortened to: if it is causing you too much pain, try something else.

Mr Danzig told the Centre for New American Security: “Winnie the Pooh seems to me to be a fundamental text on national security.”

He spelt out how American troops, spies and anti-terrorist officials could learn key lessons by understanding the desire of terrorists to emulate superheroes like Luke Skywalker, and the lust for violence of violent football fans.

Whatever happened to being informed from books and materials that are delivered to us from the world's of NON-FICTION!

Source Posting:
http://carters2ndterm.blogspot.com/2008/06/secretary-of-state-for-carters-second.html

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René

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at 16:50 on June 17th, 2008

Edmund Jenks, I like this story. It's good stuff.

René

at 17:25 on June 17th, 2008

I think they want to emulate Darth Vader, except Darth wasn't that into blowing himself up.

politisite

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at 11:46 on June 18th, 2008

Edmund Jenks, I like this story. It's good stuff. I love the idea of winnie the pooh. He is kind of a taoist though and not much would get done, except when he wanted a little something.