A View from Behind the Curtain: One Year Later

Tuesday, May 1, 2012

One Year Later

WSJ: Obama and the Bin Laden Bragging Rights

The link is to an article on the President's role in the raid on Osama bin Laden's house last year. As someone who grew up with the belief that bragging was not a great character trait I do find it a bit distasteful.
The comparison with how other leaders deal with tough decisions this becomes even more unsettling.

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Gino said...: linked.; May 2, 2012 at 11:18 PM

The Man in the Arena

It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.

Theodore Roosevelt, "Citizenship in a Republic,"  Speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910

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