Thursday, October 22, 2009

Selective Urgency > unless you're a soldier in Afghanistan

By Robert P. Kirchhoefer at spectator.org
In the long run, we're all dead. -- J. M. Keynes
Unless you happen to be a soldier in Afghanistan. Over there, it can happen a little sooner.

Contrary to the immediacy that has followed every single mantra of the Obama administration, the focus on the Afghani battlefront seems to be marching to the beat of a very different and disengaged drummer.

On matters of domestic policy, the short-sightedness illustrated by Keynes' impetuous statement set a droning pace for the Democrats' agenda: we cannot wait for a stimulus; we cannot delay passing legislation on climate change; we must overhaul health care now: the time to debate is over. Never one to let crises go to waste, Mr. Obama and his administration have squeezed out every last drop of every crisis in order to make gallons and gallons of crisisade.

And it's beginning to taste really bad.

Read the rest here .....

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