Well lets' start with the situation of the Enhanced Interrogation Methods (EIM). First thing out the door is that loose lips sink ships. An old add edge that holds true here, unless you are trying to destroy the American Intelligence Community (AIC), as a whole. Now if that wasn't your intent, then you are basically to naive to be in the office of President, having to pay back campaign promises that cause extreme damage to all parties involved and further divide America is not governing from the center.
Mental disorder's are one thing, but individuals who act as a small group to harm, kill, maim, behead, and conduct mass murder to cause fear, terror and other actions, do so because they hate! You can't stop a terrorist or extremist with kid gloves as I've heard the left talk about on TV. They say we are better than that. They mean it, even at everyone else's expense. That is where you are in a nut shell, so where are you on this matter? No One knows.
You can't stop extreme disorder's through appeasement, you can only stop it with drugs or other real world physical actions, like bullet's, bombs, soldier's with feet on the ground, with spies, and other technology to remove the faction's underpinning's. No matter how hard we try to stop one unknown man who is determined to kill himself, he will succeed. So if you don't take the fight back to his turf he will try again. Only next time he succeeds, what will it be?
Weakened intelligence resources will now not be able to find him, or what he's going to do until after the fact. Do you want to be know for all history as the President that allowed or made possible thousands, potentially millions of civilian deaths just to have payed back a campaign promise. I know that simple thought discus's you as it would any man. You have to know your own resolve, what you expect and how many of the people you are responsible for, that will have to die to defend the United States from extremist nut job's carrying his suitcase NUKE!
The President of the United State's of America is charged as the Commander and Chief of the United State's Military responsible for defending the nation, the states and all it's people from harm. Thus, if you were to weaken your own power to execute your charge you would have in fact disregarded your fiduciary responsibility as the President. If in fact you intended to give comfort and aid to the enemies of our nation, you would also have failed the above responsibility to execute the power's of your office as President.
Now the issue at hand, after having declassified Top Secret material and made it publicly available to the nations enemies, having caused weakened military, having provided aid to terrorist militia, having factions in the U.S. tell you what to do, having a staff and or cabinet that failed to correctly advise you. Are you Mr. President, in fact stating that you hate America as the 1st Lady eluded to prior to your election to the highest office of the land. Search your soul Mr. President, are you really ready to be THE PRESIDENT!
In the case that you haven't figured it out, The Office of the President is separate from the Legislative or Judicial branches, you are not their to act as a democrat or a republican. Your office is set apart from them, You are the one who directs the actions of this government! Not the Legislative branch.
Now take a deep breath and let it out slowly, then understand that if you don't have what it takes', it's too late to get out of the job, you already took the oath of office.
Being the President of the United States of America is all about character. This being said, Check your childhood, check your attitude from your youthful day's at the door. You have to be a thinker, a doer, a motivator, a BOSS! Most good Boss's talk softly and don't promise you the moon, they tell you to get back to work! So do what a boss does, tell the Congress what you want and forget the IOU's, forget about the campaign, they are in the past.
Being the President of the United States of America is all about character. This being said, Check your childhood, check your attitude from your youthful day's at the door. You have to be a thinker, a doer, a motivator, a BOSS! Most good Boss's talk softly and don't promise you the moon, they tell you to get back to work! So do what a boss does, tell the Congress what you want and forget the IOU's, forget about the campaign, they are in the past.
Don't do thing's like bow, shake hands with, smile at or apologize to any foreigner, friend or foe. Stand up for the people of this country before any other's. That is why you were elected to office. You can't appease the worlds hate with smiles and words, you know that now, words are not as strong a thing as other nation's agenda's have spoken loud and clear. So stop talking and stop doing it.
When our economy is strong they will all fall in line. The have such a long history of hating the U.S. there is nothing you even the President can do to change in your time. You can only lead them with economic power, so start building that power in the United States again. It's been too long since the flame's of liberty were lit last, you could be a hero over night! Oh and buy the way if you do this quietly and don't make a big deal out of it in the media, that would make you an even bigger hero.
I know your not in the happiest place right now but bigger is not better when it comes to government right now in a severely impacted economy. Some times the well studied student can have a different view to solve the same problems the professor demands you extol only his view. You have not yet been in the real world to know if your view is correct and his not so you ceseed.
Well guess what, your not in class anymore. Stop testing methods that won't work. Government grows and the people's liberty contracts. For your part in this is to work well and leave a better world for your children long after your out of office you need to force, direct, manipulate, spindle, fold, mitigate, resolve and ultimately make the stand to reduce the size of Government to allow the people your charged to protect to grow their liberty. Give, ACT, DO!
Well guess what, your not in class anymore. Stop testing methods that won't work. Government grows and the people's liberty contracts. For your part in this is to work well and leave a better world for your children long after your out of office you need to force, direct, manipulate, spindle, fold, mitigate, resolve and ultimately make the stand to reduce the size of Government to allow the people your charged to protect to grow their liberty. Give, ACT, DO!
Well now we can get to work. I would like to give you some advise from the flyover states:
1: Stop spending huge sums of money, stop printing it, stop other's from causing it's demise as the world's currency. Collect the TARP funds and return them to the People of America. We do know what we need better than a bureaucrat. You don't live in my home or community. I don't sit at your table and eat your food, leech off of you, or borrow from your savings account. I file criminal charges on you if you did, and like wise you file charges on me for doing it to you. It is the simplest view that will allow you to decide and direct the actions of the government.
2: Drop the tax rhetoric, reduce capital gains tax to 5%, reduce or eliminate the exsize tax, end the Death tax, eliminate tax on savings, reduce personal payroll tax to not more than 5.6%, hold Social Security payment rates where they are along with MEDICAID/MEDICARE. With Trillions of Dollars sitting offshore these tax rate's will create a firestorm of activity in the private sector within 90 days that would become visible to everyone.
3: Stop being everyone's friend, no single person on this planet will ever be loved by everyone. Sorry it's a fact. Being the President of the Greatest County in the World does have some perks and pitfalls.
"A Nation which can preffer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one." Alexander Hamilton
With all the freedoms we American's have and power we can wield with just our economy alone most country's are envious and will act against us for this fact alone.
Mr. President there is an old movie done in black and white that say's it best, The Wizard of OZ. It's always suppose to be prettier on the other side of the rainbow, but it great to be back home again. American's travel all over the world and everyone else has had to learn the English language not the other way around for a reason.
We are the world, in one nation, under god, with liberty and justice for all. You just have to get government out of the way for the real American dream's to come true all over the nation. This is the one time it matter's Mr. President, smaller is better. Not what a man would say but true none the less.
FREEDOM 101