Comments on: John Bolton: The Most Dangerous Man at State (Plus Tales of the Press) http://poliblogger.com/?p=7376 A rough draft of my thoughts... Thu, 08 Dec 2024 05:27:48 -0600 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Arguing with signposts… » In case you missed them … http://poliblogger.com/?p=7376&cpage=1#comment-80111 Arguing with signposts… » In case you missed them … Tue, 21 Jun 2024 01:04:51 +0000 http://poliblogger.com/?p=7376#comment-80111 [...] Monday, June 20th, 2024 @ 9:04 pm in [ Blogging ] Steven Taylor describes a form of news lead that he dislikes. I’m not so enamored of this type of news peg myself, and [...] [...]
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Steven Taylor describes a form of news lead that he dislikes. I’m not so enamored of this type of news peg myself, and [...]

]]> By: Steven L. http://poliblogger.com/?p=7376&cpage=1#comment-79501 Steven L. Mon, 20 Jun 2024 13:50:04 +0000 http://poliblogger.com/?p=7376#comment-79501 I had the exact same questions as Terry when reading that. Meaning Terry must be a genius, of course. I had the exact same questions as Terry when reading that. Meaning Terry must be a genius, of course.

]]> By: Terry http://poliblogger.com/?p=7376&cpage=1#comment-79398 Terry Mon, 20 Jun 2024 11:53:18 +0000 http://poliblogger.com/?p=7376#comment-79398 Because the article doesn't give enough information to determine exactly which "obstacle" was recently cleared, it is hard to tell exactly what the heck they are talking about. However, some of the "problems" we were encountering were that the Rusky's didn't think we were giving them enough money, that we we wanted to know exactly what they were spending the money on, and that we wanted to actually confirm the results of the spending (i.e., we wanted to see that the materials were secured rather than just taking their word on it). If we "resolved" these problems by caving in and giving them more money without demanding any accountability or verification measures, then maybe the tragedy here is that Bolton was taken out of the "Washington policy loop"! Because the article doesn’t give enough information to determine exactly which “obstacle” was recently cleared, it is hard to tell exactly what the heck they are talking about. However, some of the “problems” we were encountering were that the Rusky’s didn’t think we were giving them enough money, that we we wanted to know exactly what they were spending the money on, and that we wanted to actually confirm the results of the spending (i.e., we wanted to see that the materials were secured rather than just taking their word on it).

If we “resolved” these problems by caving in and giving them more money without demanding any accountability or verification measures, then maybe the tragedy here is that Bolton was taken out of the “Washington policy loop”!

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