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Political analysts Mark Shields and David Brooks discuss the week's events. Confused Conservative, Confused America.

"And so that's the model that you hear them talking about. And they do think that it is possible, over that time frame, to move toward that sort of model, which is not the democratic model anybody imagined. But they think it's possible. Whether it's true or not, who knows?"
"DAVID BROOKS: But the political patience is not like rainfall. It's not a natural phenomenon. It's something we can change. And let me say, I'm more uncertain about what to do than I've ever been in this war. I really have no clue. So I almost have no judgment on what we should do, stay or go. I really am so confused.

Nonetheless, if we do decide that it's plausible to think that in a year we could avoid genocidal civil war, it seems to me changing the political timetable here is worth trying to do, if we can come to that original conclusion."


If you wanted to hear the analysis of David Brooks and Mark Shield as interviewed by Jim Lehrer, i have the links for you. it is 12.14 minute long.
http://media.pbs.org/ramgen/newshour/expansion/2007/07/20/20070720_shields28.rm?altplay=20070720_shields28.rm

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