http://dougist.com/2009/04/barack-orwell-obama/ Douglas Barone Wed, 14 Mar 2012 22:39:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://dougist.com/2009/04/barack-orwell-obama/comment-page-1/#comment-337 steve giovinco Wed, 22 Apr 2009 02:07:26 +0000 http://dougist.com/?p=226#comment-337 <p>To take just the first bullet point as an example, I suppose one would have to wonder about the purposes of Iraq and Afghanistan. Are they the same? Do they have the same goals? Did they start to solve the same problem? If the answer is “yes,” then your supposition is correct. But to ponder it another way, does it matter who is determining policy about these issues—I mean, could it be anyone? Generally speaking, does it matter that President Bush is implementing a policy or President Obama? Are two people interchangeable? Would it be different if John F. Kennedy or if Ronald Regan made the same policy that President Obama made? I think people are different, and even if they make what appears to be the same decision, people have different intentions—otherwise, anyone could make the policy decision. To look at it another way, if I knock a glass from the table and you knock a glass from the table, both glasses break. But did I knock it off purposefully and you accidentally? The result is the same but the intent may be different.</p> To take just the first bullet point as an example, I suppose one would have to wonder about the purposes of Iraq and Afghanistan. Are they the same? Do they have the same goals? Did they start to solve the same problem? If the answer is “yes,” then your supposition is correct. But to ponder it another way, does it matter who is determining policy about these issues—I mean, could it be anyone? Generally speaking, does it matter that President Bush is implementing a policy or President Obama? Are two people interchangeable? Would it be different if John F. Kennedy or if Ronald Regan made the same policy that President Obama made? I think people are different, and even if they make what appears to be the same decision, people have different intentions—otherwise, anyone could make the policy decision. To look at it another way, if I knock a glass from the table and you knock a glass from the table, both glasses break. But did I knock it off purposefully and you accidentally? The result is the same but the intent may be different.

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