Saturday, July 02, 2016

The Pottery Barn Rule: You Brexit, You Own It

Colin Powell's maxim has never had greater force.

If you don't think more than one step ahead you are going to get stepped on and crushed, and then stepped over.

"What do we do if we win?" was never a question asked in the UK. It is a question not being asked in the Trump campaign, which does not even know the question exists. Just win baby.

It is a question that was not asked in Tahir Square in 2012. "First he goes, then we think," was the "thought." He went, Hosni Mubarak went, the Muslim Brotherhood stepped in, on and over the young, idealistic, thoughtless, disorganized, bewildered protesters and then the army stepped in and crushed both. Egypt, are you better off now with Abdel Fattah al-Sisi than you were four years ago with Hosni Mubarak?

Live in the moment.

There is more than one moment in a life. You live in the moment, you die in the moment.