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Originally Posted by aceventura3
I don't find that a challenge at all. No matter what the circumstances or conditions, you do what you think is right. Every day is a new day. Every problem is a new problem. Focus on undoing, compared to doing, in my view seems to be backward and perhaps counter-productive.
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Well, I think the challenge is in being obvious about your convictions in the type of circumstances such as those Obama faces. It's not like he walked into your average presidential office.
Maybe Obama's convictions aren't obvious to you; to say he has no convictions is a serious charge.
And sometimes you must undo, where the mess is so terrible that doing something else would only make matters worse. If you're on the wrong path, you don't keep trotting down it; sometimes you have to backtrack.
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Originally Posted by aceventura3
The Canadian involvement in the Iraq war was interesting. I seemed the country took a principled stance against preemptive war but got involved after the invasion apparently to help re-build but what some called "re-building" others called an occupation and no matter how you say it- it was a war. As Canadian leaders took a principled stance against the invasion they also made note of how they supported the US military effort. Canada committed money to the effort and Canadian died in the conflict. How did Bush's reach affect Canadians and why did it happen?
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silent_jay more or less summed it up. But I will add that any support offered by Canadians on the level of government or elsewhere was generally applied more so to the "War on Terror" than it was in the mess (i.e. war operations) in Iraq.
Canadians tend to have a knack for wanting to fix things and make them better, and so that's what we do. Afghanistan is a bit of a different story, but it's a good place to look to see the difference between how we view one situation versus the other.