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i get that, cimmaron----but i doubt there's a single consideration in what i wrote that would be politick to run out in a national television address. for example, it'd be a bad idea to make too explicit the geopolitical interests around petroleum at an official level. better to pretend something else is on----focus on the high ground and all that.
no president is ever entirely transparent about interests. ever. not part of the game. hell, augustus caesar knew that. anyone whose held power knows that. machiavelli is a theory of it. an instructional guide. you know.
i think obama did a reasonably good job of laying out the overall rationale for acting, btw.
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