I was driving home listening to Daschle give a speech on C-Span radio. Daschle always struck me as to nice to be Senate leader, but a good guy and someone to look to as a way to reach across if he could win a Senate seat in South Dakota.
And although the speech itself was a bit slow for my tastes, it was the content on one particular point that got my brain stirring a bit.
We are a reality based community, and he made a reality based arguement. His was abortion, but the concept fits everywhere
Abortion (quoting Daschle)
"I am opposed to abortion. And I'm very strongly in favor of finding alternatives to abortion," Daschle said. "I believe that sending a young woman and her doctor to jail is the wrong remedy." - Rapid City Journal
More to the point, we live in a world where abortions occur if we agree with them or we do not. If you truly oppose abortion, your focus should be on limiting them, through the programs that have been shown time and time again to be the most effective, education and contraceptive.
Are we more about what we wish for or what we are able to do?
Immigration:
We can spend time discussing the why or we can address the situtation. Do we choose to spend all of our law enforcement resources, and detention facilities to arrest and detain 12 million people, most of which are currently employeed and paying taxes, or will we seek a reality based practical solution to the problem?
Are we more about what we wish for or what we are able to do?
Iraq:
It would be wonderful if their were an exact number of insurgents, and that after we killed all of them the war would be over. But that isn't how it works, and the longer we are over there the less we are seen as liberators and the more we are seen as an occupying forces. We all wish we could go back, change how the war was handled, perhaps not even go to war at all. But we can't, and we must deal with the situation as it is, rather than as we wish it to be. We are seen as the enemy, and our presence undermines the legitimacy of the Iraqi government while fueling the insurgency. We all want to stop the violence in Iraq, but is that realistically a role that America can fill?
Is it more about what we wish for or is it about what we are able to do?
Add your own.