Whereas Obama has been faulted for overthinking matters to the point of crippling inaction, critics of the current president say his weakness is his apparent lack of interest in planning.
(See: "Fed Statement Points To Months Of Inaction").
The point is to demonstrate the consequences of inaction.
Reeling off the casualties of war without accepting any responsibility for what happens as a result of inaction is simply to stop thinking at the point where one's worldview jars with reality.
I want to go back to your earlier point about the risks of an action versus the risk of inaction.
As for Calvin Coolidge, the President who, in Ahamed's words, "elevated inaction to a point of principle": not hard to think of a latter-day parallel for him.
When the story began to unravel, Erdely told skeptics not to get "sidetracked" from the "overarching point of the article" — the school's inaction on the allegations.
Seemingly insurmountable gaps in political solutions to repair the system along with Congressional inaction to the point of blockage have brought the country to the point of crisis.
And the governor's advisers point out that at least eight other states have taken similar steps because of inaction in Washington.
The consequences of inaction have pushed us ever closer to an inevitable "tipping point" where certain conditions become irreversible.
