alienated, separated because of our polarized politics, we have a much bigger problem. this is such an important point. you listen to the way they talk about this. you need to win allies in the muslim community if you re going to take this on and you can t give ammunition to the radicals to say the united states is waging a holy war. the guantanamo comment today. there s always been concern that just guantanamo is a symbol. period. yes. for sure. it was a symbol in the bush years and president bush was right and dick cheney was right. it is difficult to close that down. obama had challenges to close it down. difficult for a host reasons. the other point i would make about europe and the united states, some of the challenges europe had was because their class system was so much stronger and it was harder for people who weren t born in the upper class to
and all, chechnya and all of this. i think russia has a real probl problem, chechnya in some ways, an open wound, neighboring former soviet republics like uzbekistan and kazakhstan. just a lot of fermean ferment. stuck in syria, the sense we d get caught again as in afghanistan would be very damping for russidamp ing damaging for russia. i think you re right. and a lot of muslim resentment maybe to american power or whatever, but it feels as if russia s probably got a bigger problem, perceptionwise, in the muslim world. absolutely they do. it s a regional problem. we see it in europe. it s affecting social movements and political movements on both sides of the pond.
pregnant is not on top of one s list, she should have known the rules of the company and the, those of the pregnancy discrimination act of 1978 did not include paying her to not do her job, which the requirements of her job were to lift packages up to 70 pounds. her doctor said nothing over 20 pounds. this will not be good for your pregnancy. ups did not respond while paying her off her leave and she is fighting that. so,-ups is just issued me a response of the i was on the phone with them moments ago. this was result of our union negotiated labor contract and was consistent with state law and federal law. joe, you and i were just talking. bottom line, ups is saying we followed the rules. they followed the rules and rules that the union negotiated. i think they could have handle it better, probably, if they made the move politically would have been better for them, perceptionwise would have been better for them. obviously. obviously. but the question is if you go by letter of the
think part of this is, you know, before you fire somebody, you better know who you re going to have to replace. why did stan mcchrystal so easily get fired by the president? he had david petraeus ready to go, boom, suddenly it looked like a very commanding decision. let me let me tell you real quick, if the president s on the phone right now and says, general, are you ready to do this and that s who he s got replacing, he can fix this problem perceptionwise in a hurry. let me ask, this is sort of a constitutional question. you know, i saw this with colin powell during the iraq war, he acted like he was still a general of the army and still required to take orders, a civil servant who was a fighting man, as well. this guy, shinseki, a fine man, of course, out there doing the best job he can, but he s not just a civil servant, not a headless nail. he s not covered by the he is a cabinet officer, he is supposed to walk.
have been giving shinseki space on this because shinseki himself has sort of this personal loyalty that is bipartisan, sort of above board, there s a lot of people that honor his service, so i think that is playing a little bit more of a role here, chris, than you realize. i ll tell you another issue that the white house has, the replacement for shinseki needs to be a big presence, needs to be a commanding presence, needs to be a stylistic change, and i think part of this is, you know, before you fire somebody, you better know who you re going to have to replace. why did stan mcchrystal so easily get fired by the president? he had david petraeus ready to go, boom, suddenly it looked like a very commanding decision. let me let me tell you real quick, if the president s on the phone right now and says, general, are you ready to do this and that s who he s got replacing, he can fix this problem perceptionwise in a hurry. let me ask, this is sort of a constitutional question. you k