Factions with strict ideological agendas love to pretend as if all policy issues, problems and solutions are simple and self-evident. But this is absurd. In truth, our world is now connected by an incredibly complex web of political, legal and economic relationships; a Gordian knot of competing agendas that can quickly take ‘simple’ solutions to very unhappy places.
– Michael Arnovitz, in Thinking About Hillary — A Follow-up.