We are totally doomed! Obama's people are referencing Pooh Bear and Star Wars on how to handle foreign affairs. (see article below)
America's security is not a children's book. The problem has been we haven't been making the difficult choices. He wants us to make even less difficult choices.
Maybe Danzig answered the question of why people are drawn to Senator Obama....we live mundane lives and have no ambition.
Internet Friends:
"I can tell you my life is not mundane and I have ambition. Maybe that is why I am not interested in Obama and his so-called Winnie the Pooh world of change. "
To Victory in 2008,
JD
by FOXNews.com
Foreign policy architects could benefit from studying Winnie the Pooh and Star Wars, according to a Barack Obama adviser who is set to attend a meeting of the Democratic candidate’s national security work group Wednesday.
Richard Danzig, former Navy secretary under President Clinton, drew several creative and unusual analogies to explain the challenges America faces overseas during a foreign policy conference in Washington, D.C., last week, according to an article in the British newspaper The Daily Telegraph.
In arguing that the country should back off a policy that causes too much pain, Danzig said, “”Winnie the Pooh seems to me to be a fundamental text on national security.”
He read a section from the children’s book where Pooh Bear hurts himself going down the steps because he hasn’t stopped to think of another way.
During his address to the Center for New American Security, Danzig also said much can be learned about the motivations of terrorists by looking at, for instance, soccer fans who become absorbed by violence or even the Star Wars movies.
According to the article, Danzig said a terrorist from the 1995 Tokyo nerve gas attack once told him: “We have been raised on a theory of superheroes. We all want to be like Luke Skywalker.”
Danzig argued that anyone who leads a “mundane” life and loses his or her ambition can be tempted by the promises of an extremist group or leader.
Danzig was expected to meet Wednesday as part of Obama’s 13-member Senior Working Group on National Security.
It includes former members of Congress and high-ranking Clinton administration officials.
1 comment:
Some of the best lessons come from literature, including children's literature. The message may sound simple but stories have been told for a long time that appear simple, but have profound effects. Think of all of Christ's stories in the New Testament that guide the behavior of many people all over the world over two thousand years since they were spoken. This idea -- that we should consider other options if our present course is causing us too much pain -- is very good advice. Often when we are locked into intense, adrenaline-producing situations (such as the use of extreme force to solve problems), we can't see other ways of being. But those other ways are there if we step back and assess things.
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