Abe is the least likely to be a pragmatist. But the costs are too high not to be pragmatic. They lose leadership in the region. They lose legitimacy. |
If you tell the locomotive to do 15 miles an hour and you're shoving some cars and some of them go on the ground, that locomotive is going to shove those cars sideways at 15 miles an hour until the guy operating the locomotive tells them not to. |
Within their limitations, they are perfectly safe. |