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In reply to the discussion: Obama vs Hersh [View all]H2O Man
(73,536 posts)Thank you.
Minister Malcolm X had a system for basing trust on. He rated everyone (including himself) on a scale of zero to one hundred, with 100 being the highest possible level of trust.
In my opinion, if a person is a politician, that places significant restrictions upon how much I can trust them. I base that on decades of person experience, and a significant amount of studying various politicians. Although I am a Democrat, I recognize that even among the very best of democratic politicians, I would be foolish if I expected complete -- or near-complete -- honesty. For that is the very nature of politics in our society.
The good thing about this situation is that there is absolutely no need to take "trust" into account as a factor in determining what happened leading up to the killing of bin Laden, the actual circumstances that night, or the events in the hours and days that followed.