re: #15 Killgore Trout

That’s why I think Obama will make the right decision on Iran. He’s not afraid of risk or action when necessary. He’s made pretty good decisions so far.

Given what I’ve seen of your defense of Bush, I wonder if that comment reflects a potential misunderstanding of the Bush administration’s process on your part.

It wasn’t so much that the Bush administration was afraid of risk. Their problem was that they failed to do a basic risk assessment, because they felt doing so undermined the basis of their moral authority for action. It wasn’t that they were afraid of risk - it was the opposite, in fact - that they weren’t sufficiently afraid of risk because they didn’t perform due diligence.