Winnie the Pooh as Obama’s foreign policy advisor? No Really

June 17th, 2008 • Related • Filed Under

Because fighting terrorism is just too hard.

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.

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Mr Danzig spelt out the need to change by reading a paragraph from chapter one of the children’s classic, which says: “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.”

He also compared terrorism to unruly fans such as Britain’s soccer fans. You know, because it’s hard to point your finger when you have your own terrorist.

Oh this will be fun to read, “What Mr. Danzig meant to say was that….[feel free to add your own remark].

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