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Curt  ·  3959 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Robert Gates’ War

Sorry, but I find your "we can't even try because..." to be very unsatisfactory.

We can't even try WHAT, exactly?

Perhaps a move to a specific would be helpful. What would you have the executive branch try (legislatively or otherwise) with respect to, say, closing Guantanamo Bay? Invite more Republican congresspersons to lunch? Play another round of golf with Speaker Boehner?

Government by RSVP doesn't sound like much of a solution to a system failure to me. Which is not to say that public apathy, as you suggest, is not the root cause of the problem -- in which case, the young face a very bleak future indeed.