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This is an interesting little article asking why Obama isn’t more lively in reactions to the environmental atrocities being committed in the gulf. Just follow the link.

One rebuttal I have as to why the president is taking a more measured response is that, if you are trying to make the person who did wrong fix their problems, you need to work from the standpoint of negotiation not persecution. If that party feels that you are punishing as they are working, they can choose not to do the work since, from their standpoint, they’ll get punished either way. I’d argue that he’s trying to set up a partnership to fix the problem and AFTERWARDS will attend to why it happened and will work towards addressing the wrongs after the issue has been fixed, particularly something of this sensitivity and magnitude.

Probably more comments on this later.