When a decision is unpopular, call it ‘dithering’

A while back, President Obama came under fire for ‘dithering’ over his Afghan policy. Dick Cheney said that “signals of indecision…hurt our allies and embolden our adversaries”. Donald Rumsfeld and Karl Rove concurred. The Washington Post’s David Broder claimed that “the urgent necessity is to make a decision—whether or not it is right.”