September 13, 2007

Child’s Play In Iraq

By Michael J. O’Shea

“I am reminded of the time I saw my 3-year-old daughter trying and failing to tie her shoes. She got angry. Still, she kept trying.

“‘This is difficult,’ she concluded. ‘But I like difficult.'”

A child grittier than Congressional leaders, spunkier than people twenty times her age.
She’s Bill Gates’ daughter, but that’s immaterial. Her mother Melinda wrote those words, but that’s immaterial, too. What matters is what Melinda Gates also said to other philanthropists about starting the Gates Foundation.

“It turns out that her parents like difficult, too. And I suspect that you all like difficult, which is why you’ve devoted your lives to solving some of the world’s toughest problems.”

That’s what Congressmen are elected to do: solve some of America’s — and therefore the world’s — toughest problems. But Congressmen prefer childish ways instead and so play: play statesmen, play leader.
Listening to leaders in Congress one would imagine that, like a child, they still believe in the stork: Iraq, which they voted to liberate from Saddam’s rule, would go from tyranny to ally against terrorism in four-tenths of a decade.

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