Posted on 06/16/2008 4:26:54 PM PDT by atomic conspiracy
Winnie the Pooh, Luke Skywalker and British football hooligans could shape the foreign policy of Barack Obama if he becomes US President, according to a key adviser. Richard Danzig, who served as Navy Secretary under President Clinton and is tipped to become National Security Adviser in an Obama White House, told a major foreign policy conference in Washington that the future of US strategy in the war on terrorism should follow a lesson from the pages of Winnie the Pooh, which can be shortened to: if it is causing you too much pain, try something else.
Mr Danzig told the Centre for New American Security: “Winnie the Pooh seems to me to be a fundamental text on national security.”
He spelt out how American troops, spies and anti-terrorist officials could learn key lessons by understanding the desire of terrorists to emulate superheroes like Luke Skywalker, and the lust for violence of violent football fans.
Mr Obama’s candidacy was given an early boost by his opposition to the Iraq war and he has repeatedly said the US needs to rethink its approach to the Middle East.
Mr Danzig spelt out the need to change by reading a paragraph from chapter one of the children’s classic, which says: “Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump on the back of his head behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming down stairs. But sometimes he thinks there really is another way if only he could stop bumping a minute and think about it.”
GOD HELP US.
The guy has degrees in philosophy.
“The guy has degrees in philosophy.”
Tells us all we need to know about him.
Geez, what a maroon. Maybe he can pretend that Obama is Robin Hood - stealing from the rich and giving to the (special interests)!
Seriously. It’s almost comical if it weren’t for the fact that there is a better than average chance that this idea will be all that stands between us and another Al Qaeda attack after Bushs term ends.
Mr. Danzig should be shown the corridor, then the door.
Oy vey!
Dear GOD, I thought John Kerry was scary but this idiot will kill us all.
I wonder what the grinning idiots with stars in their eyes will think when the s#it hits the fan
What’s really scary is this guy could win...there’s enough stupid people to vote for him! God help us all!
Danzig will be the next person under the Barry bus.
Speechless ping
“Oh bother.” said Pooh as he chambered his next round, “We’re running short of Claymores!”
This from the UK and NOT a peep from our mediaFREAKINclymers!! YES this guy is going to completely destroy whatever is left of our nation!! GOD HELP US1
I expect a terrorist attack on American soil IF he wins the election.
Oh, cut the guy a break. It was the only way he could explain something so complex to the little people of the world. /s
Dont worry, Juan McCain is pretty good at exploiting stuff like this. /s
Didn’t Obama promise to give Oprah Winfrey an ambassador post if he becomes president?
Wow, soooo does The Onion have any standing here?
“Nobody knows how cold my toes, how cold my toes are growing.”
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