tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12597943.post6751718015378561047..comments2024-02-28T04:20:40.719-06:00Comments on THE LAST LIBERAL STANDING: Marching Through HellBob Kellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18171655256407149176noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12597943.post-16803381162093054682007-03-28T09:13:00.000-05:002007-03-28T09:13:00.000-05:00vigilante, Virtually everything you say in your De...<B>vigilante</B>, Virtually everything you say in your December 2006 essay is true.<BR/><BR/>Nothing you say in that article has anything to do with what we should do to extract ourselves from the situation.<BR/><BR/>It's correct to say "Bush got us into this mess." <BR/><BR/>But it's going to take a real statesman to say "Here is the coordinated plan (with the help and agreement of our allies and the agreement of our generals) to solve the situation."<BR/><BR/>As a business consultant who has helped many companies extract themselves from finiacial difficulty (usually bankruptcy), the problem was almost always created by the previous CEO and his mismanagement.<BR/><BR/>The solution is NEVER to just walk away from the mess. It takes a better, brighter, more politically astute CEO to guide the company to a successful resolution of the problem.<BR/><BR/>Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid are consulting with absolutely no one on the entire planet. They are like small children drawing with chalk on the sidewalk. <BR/><BR/>God help us all.<BR/><BR/>the Wizard......Bob Kellerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18171655256407149176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12597943.post-10391245810688185002007-03-27T21:28:00.000-05:002007-03-27T21:28:00.000-05:00Wizard, when you say you want to find a way out, a...Wizard, when you say you want to find a way out, after all we've been through together, I have trouble believing you.<BR/><BR/><I>An apocryphal story has survived in which the Kaiser was bedeviling Bismarck before World War I about the fact that Germany wasn't keeping up with France and England as far as scoring colonies in Africa.<BR/><BR/>Finally, Bismarck exploded and pulled the pen and scrap of paper out of the Kaiser's hands and bellowed, "Do you want to see my map of Africa?"<BR/><BR/>The Prince feverishly drew a series of circles on the paper: "Here's England. Here's France. Here's Russia. And the middle of the three of them, here's Germany. This is my map of Africa!"</I><BR/><BR/>So, in that vein, I have drawn for benefit of your navigation, my geopolitical map for <A HREF="http://the-vigil.blogspot.com/2006/12/americas-map-for-21st-century.html" REL="nofollow">American statecraft for the 21st Century</A>. You should note it is considerably circumscribed from what it was half a decade ago.Vigilantehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07640246609540057997noreply@blogger.com