By Ted Becker
Yeah, yeah, I know. He’s supposed to be the “Commander in Chief”, not the Chief Peacemaker. OK, so how’s he as the CIC? He had Osama Bin Laden gunned down in his bedroom with his wife and kids there. But. give him points for revenge.. BUT….by doing it the way it was done, he has made an implacable enemy out of Pakistan—called the most dangerous country in the world by some. He loses about the same amount of points for that. Kill one threat. Create perhaps a worse one. So, let’s call that a wash. One might call assassination of a bad person “peacemaking” in a way—but is not the way of the mediator. (more…)
Planning for Survival by Ismail Rifaat
