“You never want a serious crisis to go to waste,” Rahm Emanuel told a conference organized by The Wall Street Journal in November 2008.
A moxie sound bite in an exhilarating moment: Emanuel, and his election-winning candidate, Barack Obama, were still ascending, the passionate rhetorical rockets of hope and change only two mere months from empowering policies guaranteed to place America in a far superior global position, an in-sync-with-the-planet, non-confrontational orbit guided by “smart diplomacy,” multilateral cooperation and Obama’s own unique, enlightened personality.
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