Richard Danzig, who served as Navy Secretary under President Clinton and is tipped to become National Security Adviser in an Obama White House, told a major 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.
Mr Danzig told the Centre for New American Security: “Winnie the Pooh seems to me to be a fundamental text on national security.”

Mr Danzig spelt out the need to change 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 behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming down stairs. But sometimes he thinks there really is another way if only he could stop bumping a minute and think about it.

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So, who does Edward bear represent. The militant Islamists? Which means all Obama has to do is teach the jihadists that if theyd just stop hacking peoples heads off and blowing innocent people up for a minute, he would be able to teach them a better way of living. I’m sure that will go down really well coming from an apostate Muslim/ Christian.
Or does Edward bear represent the Americans? And what is the lesson to be learnt? Is it that nothing is worth fighting for if it causes pain? Appeasement and surrender could both be seen as ways of potentially reducing short term pain. Is that what Mr Danzig is endorsing?