Could Winnie the Pooh and Star Wars save US foreign policy after Bush?
WINNIE THE POOH, Luke Skywalker and British football hooligans could shape the foreign policy of Barack Obama if he becomes US president, according to a key adviser. Richard Danzig, who served as navy secretary under the former president Bill Clinton and is tipped to become national security adviser in an Obama White House, told a foreign policy conference in Washington that the future of US strategy in the war on terrorism should follow a lesson from the pages of Winnie the Pooh, which can be shortened to: if it is causing you too much pain, try something else. He told the Centre for a New American Security: “Winnie the Pooh seems to me to be a fundamental text on national security.” Mr Danzig spelled out the need for the US to change its foreign policy towards the Arab world by reading a paragraph from chapter one of the children’s classic, which says: “Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump on the back of his head sometimes he thinks there really is another way
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