Quote Originally Posted by JMA View Post
Talking of BO (and nobody else):

BO may well be voted out, but if he is it won't be over Syria, Libya, or any other foreign policy sideshow... the US economy is the issue over which the election will be contested.

I can't say I agree with everything he's done, either in domestic or foreign policy, but I'd hesitate to use words like "stupid", simply because I can't say with any great conviction that any alternative policy would have produced better results.

Seems to me that armchair critics who would accuse those with responsibility of stupidity, incompetence, or any other such thing really ought to back up those words with a clear explanation of what they think should have been done and why that course would have been better, lest they be suspected of spouting hot air...