Charles -

YES - The President DOES Deserve Props for Authorizing this One. I give them Knowingly, Intelligently, Voluntarily, and Grudgingly. Let us fight our battles at the margins of economics. As for Foreign Affairs, LET YOUR INNER CHICAGO COME OUT! Does NOT get you loved and DOES get you respected/feared - a reasonable place to start from. With a little work you might just YET become the inheritor of the (Henry) Jacksonian mantle. Think about it Mr. President. Might even get all ‘y’all a second term.

-S-