NY Times editors give Geronimo a trifecta

NYT covered the missed deadline for closing Guantanamo, and the resignation of the White House counsel who drew up the timetable and legal strategy. Their coverage of this issue, and the absence of giddiness among the Chinese at President Obama's mere presence (awwww), prompted the following submission. How many Editors Selections is that now? They haven't offered Geronimo a steady gig, though.

Here's the link, o ye of little faith.

http://community.nytimes.com/comments/www.nytimes.com/2009/11/19/us/19gitmo.html?sort=editors-selection#


EDITORS' SELECTIONS (what's this?)

Geronimo

California

November 18th, 2009

5:48 pm

As head of human resources at an S&P 500 company for many years, we were always scrambling to find, hire and promote people capable of leadership. It was annoying to hear the "old white guys' club" complaints, when we were happy to have excellence wherever we could find it, and had one of the first female company presidents in Silicon Valley.

The counter-hypothesis seems to be, "lots of the world's big problems are sitting around unsolved, because old white guys are the only ones who've been allowed to work on them."

Women, minorities, whoever wants power--and the complex, thorny and unpopular problems that come with that power--have at it! It can't happen too soon for me.

Maybe a few cycles of women (Sec of State Clinton), African-Americans (President Obama), Asians (Cabinet Sec'y Christopher Lu), gays (Committee Chairman Barney Frank) and so on will help convince people that these problems are not merely a matter of letting someone with a "fresh perspective" have at them--especially if that fresh perspective is attributed to the person's non-traditional race, ethnicity, gender, etc. Bad thinking, thrown into reverse gear, does not equal good thinking.