Believer
I appreciate your efforts.
I did not mean to hurt your parental feelings or say anything bad about your daughter. And I did not. Why she did not like the Health Care in Britain was not specified in your posting, so I was brief on it.
My convalescence to your sister, but to get a heart surgery is not a simple thing here in the USA too.
My business is in the dental field and I see many Americans with rotten teeth, numerous cavities-they can not afford root canal treatment or bridges and crowns, so they live “as is” or they go for having all their teeth removed and replaced with dentures, as a more affordable treatment. And it happens sometimes to the patients in mid 20-ths.
In the former USSR it would be a bad case of malpractice, but here is just an “economy factor” in the treatment.
I do not think heart surgeries are made to everybody who just needs them.
After several days, they removed life support because another patient needed it.
Sounds unprofessional. Sometimes it happens that doctors are unprofessional. But in cases like this, unprofessional, most likely, is the person who tells such a story.
North Korea. Madeline Albright did a decent job to open contacts and a path to cooperation with North Koreans. When George Bush came to the office, he broke all that. He told South Koreans who were at that time involved in talks with the North, something like: “How can you talk to these jerks, they can not be trusted”. He discouraged South Koreans from contacts with the North, and than proclaimed his “Axis of Evil”.
That followed by attack on Iraq. What else North Koreans were supposed to do other than keep working on their nukes? They wanted negotiate directly with the USA but were told “NEVER!”. George Bush, his appointee John Bolton made tough statements, and what was in the end? The USA had to talk. The USA had to yield. Conclusion? Never say never. Especially in the form of tough statements.
As about the WMD, ask Scott McClellan, he has just come up with his book.
Obama may have just short 4 years, or be impeached even sooner, if he goes wrong way. There is some risk that he may not meet the public expectations than the risk that he may mess up. The USA is a citadel of capitalizm. Too little is possible to change something in this country. Republicans and Democrats rivalry is a good thing. It works well. Now it is Dems’ turn.
