Originally posted by delmar:
Originally posted by ETayrien:

How are you supposed to know whether or not you like what your leader is doing if you don't know why he's doing it? The democratic system is based on the assumption that the population is informed on what's going on, so they can vote accordingly, moving new leaders in, or keeping old ones in place.



That's part of the process. If we don't like the fact that decisions are made behind closed doors, and we aren't informed as to the reasons why, then we can vote someone in who promises to open those doors. This is how the process works. We don't like it, we change it.

I simply think that people are too quick to criticize decisions, especially when issues aren't clearly black and white. Whatever happened to the "benefit of the doubt"? People can criticize George W. all they want - I know I have from time to time - but as far as I'm concerned he has the toughest job in the world.



well, you can cast my vote towards opening doors.

one of the reasons people criticize the war is because those issues aren't black and white - no one is confortable with the "benefit of the doubt" when thousands of lives are at stake.

and yeah, president of the USA is a pretty tough job.

now officially a troll, i guess. used to have a black 96 SE, until it broke down one too many times. now I'm hunting for a motorycle.