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Title:Rabbi Lazaros - Good Policy, Not a Drinking Buddy
Name:Mark of Lewiston
City: LewistonState: USA
In the last election Americans voted for better policy, not a drinking buddy.

Not every idea will work. But trying to reverse past ideas that demonstrably did not work is a start.

Cutting off PA funding because they voted wrong, when the US had insisted they have the Hamas option demonstrably didn`t work. It stiffened their spine and drove them into Iran`s financial arms. It turned out to be a bonehead idea.

Obama`s idea may not work. In that case he will likely look for another, but probably not one that has proven to be a failure.

Albert Einstein was a pretty smart guy. He had some ideas about repeating experiments and getting or expecting different results.