Regardless of everything that has happened and how it has been covered...

[H2O Man]

17. I'm pretty old,

and can say that I have never been a "doom and gloom" subscriber. Exactly the opposite. I learned to be fully prepared, back when I boxed, for every opponent. I studied both their strengths and weaknesses. Then I exploited both. Those lessons made me a happy, optimistic young man, one featured in a major boxing magazine as a young teen. I continue that same approach these days, both as a trainer, and political activist. Hence, every fighter I have trained since 1975 has been a Golden Gloves champion. More, almost every political campaign in our state that I have been involved in has had success during those same decades.

Being "doom and gloom" -- or, "gloom and doome" -- is a waste of time. Ignoring our opposition's strengths and weaknesses is equally an exercise in ignorance. Neither applies to me, while the second surely applies to anyone who says Afghanistan will fade quietly into the past.

Also, if one studies history -- or for those of us old enough to remember -- the end of the war and Watergate were, in some ways, connected.