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The definition of success

editorial in the International Herald Tribune over the weekend of 21-22 February 2009 caught my attention an article entitled "Salvaging Afghanistan", "Saving Afghanistan." In this article, what interested me most is the following: "In coming weeks, Obama Will Have to grapple with a series of very Difficult questions Starting with how I will define success in Afghanistan." That is, "in the coming weeks, Obama will have to contend with a very difficult set of issues starting with the question of how to define success in Afghanistan." This editorial makes a quick list of problems that will face the Obama administration. I'll rattle off the knots Afghan time:

1. President should support the central government in Kabul (Hamid Karzai) or cultivate local leaders. During his campaign, Obama said he was open to talking with some Afghan guerrillas, who are considered moderate Taliban. The writer is skeptical of this situation.

2. Obama's team has to produce rapidly a plan to expand and train the Afghan army to eventually replace NATO forces, doing the same with the police as well as control an industry than seven million dollars from the opium that is financing the Taliban.

3. Will have to see how convincing NATO allies to send more troops, with orders to fight, and more money. And this pertains directly to us. It should be noted that Obama's popularity in Europe will be affected when you have to make European leaders take a hard military decisions.

4. The most important challenge will be to see how to persuade Pakistan that the struggle against extremism is not for Americans but is essential for the survival of Pakistan itself. Keep in mind that Pakistan is a nuclear power facing frightening problems: political and economic instability, extremism home is thrilled with the ISI (Pakistani intelligence services and moving in a border region that serves as the Taliban to camp at home) and do not forget Kashmir issue.

5. An excellent choice is to gather at the White House senior Pakistani officials and Afghan government, also engaging in these talks to Saudi Arabia, Iran and India.

6. Obama comes to Europe the first week of April for the NATO summit and has told his aides to draw up before this date a strategy for Pakistan and Afghanistan. Given how fast things are entan decomposing in Afghanistan (the Taliban have now entered the areas close to Kabul), Obama aides have to take even longer than expected.

I think this brief summary will give blog readers an idea of \u200b\u200bthe importance of our subject, namely the definition of success that implicitly must precede all policies and strategies adopted in previous cases. Will this be enough to just bring these high positions in Washington or you have to add any of the above five points? Would you consider successful only solution to resolve the six foregoing problems all at once? Do we know a bit of a partial success? Do we have something more in life than partial success: an honors, an award in a short story competition, a deep love success? Let me end this post with a major text of Rilke which says: "Who speaks of victory? Feeling a little above it." The German word is überstehn .

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One of my readers tells me to read white text on a black background is very tiring for the eyes. I must admit that my own view is also very tired. And I have to admit I chose this combination of colors and the format on the advice of a young friend who looked very smart. He is right. My blog is super smart but tired of sight to the seventies.

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Can we trust a man who smokes on the sly? I asked one of my readers. Smoking is a habit that all smokers want to quit, but hard work. I, for one, I smoke less when, as in Barcelona, \u200b\u200brestrictions on smokers are very strict. Or when I'm with someone whose smoking harms health. Or when someone annoying. I quit smoking three and a half years because he worked with a friend athlete who does not smoke. I try not to smoke in their presence, I smoke when you go. Am I being an impostor to do this or I'm just respecting my friend? I think I'm respecting my friend. Obama quit smoking in public not because they are ashamed to smoke but because the United States bother many people. Stop smoking in public out of respect for all people who do not smoke. The text here is Hegel's famous " Hypocrisy is the tribute that vice pays to virtue ." This text should be clarified. Of course we have to restrict public our intimate occurrences: there is an impostor who are misled as I wish I could always, is simply a man respectful of others. Myself, I have been unconventional for seventy years of my life, respect, however, many conventions that seem respectable. I am not an impostor, I am respectful. I think that the same can be said of Obama.

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Leo the Tribune-Herald that I find a publication honest and sincere desire for truth, afraid to read criticism of Obama. This is childish. I will say then, afraid that I do see that Obama is wrong, or is seriously wrong, is this too childish? Unlike childhood or innocence, the "childish" is a defect in middle age or in my case, old age: a desire to not disuelvam enchantment and reality never conforms to our desires . What's funny in a perverse child is a man of my age I can not, however, to avoid a fear that the hopes aroused in me and millions of people on the occasion of the arrival of Obama to the Presidency, see dashed. Confessing what infanil this helps overcome fear and rigorously examine the achievements of this important global Presidency.

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One of the lines of Wallace Stevens that I have mentioned more times in my life is this: " Money is a kind of poetry ." I'm sure WAS, who was president of a major insurance company in the United States while a vast contemporary poet, meant that money is a symbolic system that has as much ability to produce reality and unreality at the same time as the other major symbolic system of the man who is not otherwise in the language. Money and power is possible in a sense analogous the sense that we say that language is the possibility and power.

But money is also spending money, money purchase, the week of Catalan students, advances from publishers to novels ... I remember the first money that I won the Ensign of Complement in Melilla. I also remember the first salary as a professor of literature and philosophy at grammar school in Madrid. As I recall, in particular, is self-affirming satisfaction of winning some money. The money that I made then, with 23 to 24, no sediment was money, the money of the sexton, who flies come and go flying. Also experienced this feeling of self working as a cleaner and switchboard at the City of London, was an emotion autarkic: remember Machado "With my money Pay the house where I live / and the bed where I lie." Based on this experience poetics of living, from earning a salary, I've always liked the best I can pay people who work with me. And tipping. Tips are pour boire. It is quite possible that I have been in this playful idea of \u200b\u200bmoney pour boire, it is like staying in infantile sexuality, the kisses, caresses, without going over. Moreover, I was born into a family of wealthy people-is speaking of money on the table and I had simpre familiariadad relationship with Major Money, of course, never won.

I've always had sympathy for the wealthy when, as in my family, entrepreneurs and not mere laborers. Recently my colleague from the Royal English Academy Darío Villanueva has proposed to introduce a beautiful new English word to describe the action of economic and business entrepreneurs: this word is "enterprise" which comes from the verb take. Entrepreneurship is a term that should be reserved for employers who, at all levels, undertake economic enrichment work. One takes the Camino de Santiago but those entrepreneurs call them pilgrims. Entrepreneurship should be reserved for commercial and financial exploits.

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I be doing a tribute of money, earn money, earn a living. I'm doing a eulogy of eating. I can only refer here to a wonderful joke from my colleague Antonio Mingote SAR in his "History of the people": " The Phoenicians spread civilization and expenses covered." This is verdaderamnete verdaderamnete comic yet true. Verdaderamnete happy. Money is gay. Health and pesetas was said long ago. And the Argentines invented the term "turbulent where there-of" throwing the money. " Throw money is not gasturrear (frequentative neological spending, as they say hum, gasturrear), throw the money is the magnificence of the great Aristotle. We associate the use of money to the Aristotelian concept of greatness, the magnificent and the Aristotelian-Christian concept of magnanimity, translation of the greatness of soul, the Greek megalopsiquía .

All this is merely a footnote , footnote on page to the fascinating political decisions that are taking our President Barack Hussein Obama. Toles's cartoon in prefixed to this article (International Herald Tribune February 7-8 2009), we have expressed with concision and power that only the major newspapers know how to use graphics, Obama's legislative decision to impose limits on the salaries of top executives whose companies have injected public money. To examine this bullet and read this comment of mine in combination with an article by Reed Hastings, chief executive of Netflix, entitled "Please raise my taxes" (on the same issue of the Herald Tribune.) Hastings recognizes that an executive is "very Highly paid" and also recognizes that the wage gap between himself and his peers and the average American creates a lot of tension. He adds "President Obama Should Our celebrate success, Rather Than Trying to shame us Our pay or cap. Also But Should I take half of Our huge earnings in taxes, INSTEAD of the current one-third. " Here's a fascinating combination. A senior executive who suggested that payment of taxes is controlled through taxation and not by artificial earnings cap. The bullet appears demolition expert financial executive asking how President Obama will retain the greatest talent of the most talented executives freezing their salaries. Is not this a big issue? Only generous bloggers open mind understand this issue. Reed Hastings says "Putting limits on the salaries at public companies, or Trying to shame Them Into coming down, will not stop this Costly competition for talent. Of course, it's galling Fails When a chief executive and is still handsomely rewarder. But with the concept of "tax, NOT shame," a shocking $ 20 million severance package Would generate $ 10 million for the Government. That's a Far Better Solution Than What We Have today, not least Because it works with the market Rather Than Against It. "

Nor do I have any more time or should I pursue this complex issue because the insightful bloggers I read do not want to, surely , keep reading me forever. I've just here to expose the state of affairs. Again President Obama hit the nail on the head.

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Obama Money and Finance: The first big mistake? Style and substance

This blog is inspired by the patriotism of the constitution . This is an idea of \u200b\u200bHabermas that each day seems more profound and appropriate to our time happily incredulous. Patrotismo now invoke the constitution is relevant because in what follows we will defend a very severe fiscal policy. We do not like paying taxes to anyone but paying taxes is the patriotic act par excellence. All we hear those wonderful speeches televised Josep Borrell when he was Secretary of the Treasury learned to pay tax not only out of duty, which is our duty as citizens, but to do so with some degree of satisfaction grumpy. We all pay taxes à contre coeur and believe that tax evasion is a serious crime and also a scandal because they pay taxes honestly is a good example. Everyone pays what they can in accordance with a canon (hateful) and thereby contributes to sustaining the state has chosen to live. Tax gives us all rights to demand our leaders the utmost honesty and thoroughness in all matters.

All this obviously comes to mind now that is beginning to be considered the first big mistake Obama. Namely, three-row American politicians specially chosen by Obama to join his Cabinet have had to resign for levity when paying their taxes. Obama has apologized specifically last Tuesday in every television saying: "I made a mistake, I was wrong and I take full responsibility for it." Antonio Caño, El Pais correspondent in Washington says bluntly: "He had not heard anything like it in the Oval Office." There are few things that I like more than to see a politician publicly acknowledging a front row error.

And now a personal note about the pay to the Treasury. I myself just to pay the Treasury a substantial amount. Curious bloggers have to settle this claim soda. And even my blogger more, Prometheus memory, you have to be satisfied that the amount, not paid by mistake in 2006 (my Premio Planeta), I had to pay in 2009 with a fine of 10,000 euros. Then as now I will pay my taxes was clear and pure. But I was misinformed and now I have fucked. The point is that I have accepted the justice of the fine and the opportunity to pay to the Treasury if actually doing what I owe. So have politicians selected by Obama. But even if an error or omission can be forgiven. A public office must be fiscally transparent. "He made a mistake by selecting Obama? It seems to me explicable by an error which has had to ask excuses. It is time to close the case.