this business to keep up the business of saying here s the deficit, here s the economy, here s the g7 meeting this coming weekend in europe. right. there s real stuff going on in the world. the hong kong democracy protests continue. in india and pakistan, pakistan could be at loggerheads over ak kashmir and india s putsch in kashmir. there are big important things happening in the world. and what i wrote is we don t have a presidency. we have an elected president buo we don t have a functioning presidency able to confront and deal with the events and problems and issues as they arise. we have a president who flits from this from that.pr and so it s impossible to predict. look, three weeks ago would anyone have predicted that the united states would be at we loggerheads with denmark over greenland?
american citizen. remember when he was supposed to be from karachi and then from k kashmir and then from peshawar? all facts, all simultaneously co-existing comfortably in the totally unskeptical news about this story. at first, mr. shahzad was totally part of the pakistani taliban. remember? they were claiming responsibility and everything. it was all planned and put together by the pakistani taliban. well, then the pakistani taliban said mr. shahzad was not actually part of their organization although they loved what he did. now we re hearing similarly uninformed speculation about shahzad s motivation, that he was retaliating for u.s. drone strikes in pakistan. there s no confirmable fact that proves that s true but that s the way it s being reported anyway. it may very well be true that that was his motivation, but i don t know. and here s the thing. neither do you. and neither does anybody who has printed anything about it in the newspaper, as if it is fact.