re: #780 alegrias

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Yesterday Charles Krauthammer said Obama is right to stay away from this hostage crisis, lest he become like Carter during the 1979-80 Iranian hostage crisis of 444 days, and come to be seen by the whole world as too worried, too involved, too WEAK, too consumed, too impotent.

As soon as the USN surrounded the boat, he was involved. Whether that was the correct thing to do or not is irrelevant now. The Power And Prestige of the United States has been committed. Now how we handle it from here is the issue.