I suppose another good question might be framed around the idea that this November Senate election will fall just a few weeks shy of the writing of that article, which argued that victory was so close that we would be fools not to stay and harvest it. His new line, as I understand it, is that disaster -- the kind of disaster that could suck the whole region down with it -- is so close that we would be fools not to stay and prevent it.
*My sincere apologies to fine clowns everywhere.