The funny thing is I am actually familiar with this page of this Pooh book, and this is not the first time it has come up in an adult environment to make a point.

I never read any Pooh stories, but I once worked for a woman who had this page copied and framed in her office. It doesn't make as much sense without the picture. The picture shows the little boy Christopher Robin walking down the stairs and he is holding the bear by one foot dragging it along with it's head on the floor. So every time he takes a step down the stairs, the bear's head goes bump on the next stair.

This woman I worked for thought it was funny, and she felt it described how things worked at our company. We would get so wrapped up in each individual crisis, that we couldn't step back and see if maybe there was a better way of doing things to avoid the crises altogether. Of course, that is the same point this guy is trying to make --- maybe we need to reevaluate our whole approach to terrorism, rather than just reacting to each terrorism crisis. His only mistake was using a metaphor that was so easy to take out of context and make look foolish, but his point is valid.

This woman I worked for also took the metaphor a step further, because at our company she considered herself to be the bear, and our management to be Christopher Robin, obliviously dragging her down the stairs by one foot, so that she had to bang her head with each step. I doubt that Danzig was trying to go that far with his metaphor, but if we were to apply this to the American War on Terror, who is Christopher Robin and who is the bear? Hmmmmm......
dragonrider Reviewed by dragonrider on . Obama aide: Why Winnie the Pooh should shape US foreign policy 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 Rating: 5