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Fortunately, the alternative to optimism is not pessimism, which can be equally delusional. What we need here is some realism, or the simple admission that, to paraphrase a bumper sticker, "stuff happens," including sometimes very, very bad stuff. We don't have to dwell incessantly on the worst-case scenarios - the metastasis, the market crash or global pandemic - but we do need to acknowledge that they could happen and prepare in the best way we can. Some will call this negative thinking, but the technical term is sobriety...
...like many West Wing staffers on Friday, Deputy White House Spokesman Bill Burton had been awoken by a phone call, in this case from an ABC News correspondent, Yunji De Nies, who told Burton that President Obama had just won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize. "That is good," quipped Burton...
...abroad for processing into harmless reactor-fuel rods. Still, while Iran may be open to taking steps to strengthen safeguards against it turning fissionable material into weapons, it remains unlikely to heed the Western demand to refrain from producing that material in the first place. Even in the best-case scenario of Iranian cooperation President Obama - who was hailed by the Nobel committee for his efforts at nuclear non-profileration - would likely face a choice about whether the U.S. and its allies could live with Iran having the means close at hand to create nuclear weapons...
...forthright and candid, and he was for the most part that way,” said Kennedy School and Business School student Al Norweb. “But it’s easy to talk about two plus not equaling four, when that wasn’t always the case when he was Speaker...
...ending wars, Obama's first relevant act as the 2009 Nobel laureate for peace may well be deciding to send an additional 10,000 to 40,000 American troops to Afghanistan in hopes of conquering the Taliban and al-Qaeda. That is not an overtly peaceful move; in any case, it offsets any peacemaking argument that can be made with regard to the drawdown in Iraq...