It's Hard

I encourage my readers to read Thomas Friedman in the New York Times today. For the first several paragraphs he lists the complicated and hard realities of the Middle East. The challenges we face in engagement with that part of the world are increasingly mired in deceipt, bigotry, hatred, wealth, poverty, friends, enemies, historic inconsistencies and yes, nuance. As President Obama makes the first attempt by a modern President to really understand it all before jumping to war, we ought to rally behind his sense of being sensible. For politicians running for President and current members of the Congress saying such irresponsible things from ignore Libya, to bomb the heck out of Ghadaffi, it is good to have someone reasonable and thoughtful attempting to figure it all out first. John McCain and Dennis Kucinich could be cavalier about American blood and Constitutional mis interpretation, but thankfully the President is a lot smarter than they are. Where are you Americans for reason and truth?