Goldilocks Politics

by digby

NBC News Washington Bureau Chief Mark Whittaker on MSNBC with the Village CW:

I think that part of the strategy here was to limit the damages on all sides. The potential military risk in terms of the Taliban toppling the government in Kabul, the possibility of this infecting Pakistan, but also the political risks of being attacked from both sides.

So, I think the administration realized that they were going to take their lumps from the right, from the left, but ultimately this sort of middle ground strategy that they came up with was going to limit the political damage in terms of the hits that they were going to take.

David Broder must have felt a major thrill up his leg when he heard that. Nobody in the country or rest of the world thinks that making such important decisions based on “this one’s too hot and this one’s too cold” makes any sense at all. But the Villagers think it’s juuuuust right.

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