Obama aide: Why Winnie the Pooh should shape US foreign policy

[birdgirl73]

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: â??Winnie the Pooh seems to me to be a fundamental text on national security.â?�

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 Obamaâ??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 childrenâ??s classic, which says: â??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.â?�
Barack Obama aide: Why Winnie the Pooh should shape US foreign policy - Telegraph

LMAO....and this is what some to be their Commander in Chief? This will make for quite the war room....bumpity bump.

Have a good one!:s4:

If you want to leave this thread visible, then, P4B, I'll make an accurate point that a previous poster did, Dave Byrd.

I think your bias is showing here, original poster. This speech wasn't given by a future commander in chief. It was given by a man who may be a security advisor. Or may not be. He made a metaphor, which is a comparison to the Pooh story. Good metaphor because, as good ones are, it's simple and easy to see the bump-factor in this war.

Now for your question:
"and this is what some to be their Commander in Chief?"

I'm assuming you meant "Is that what some want to be their commander in chief?" thinking that that was Obama who made that metaphor? Help us understand it, please. Because the speaker's name was Richard Danzig.

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