But building monuments to difficult problems is not a policy. As Churchill once wrote about the “Mulberry” harbors (his ingenious plan to install prefabricated floating piers a day after the Normandy landings), “the difficulties will argue for themselves.”
与此同时，奥巴马政府没有进行任何努力解释它正在做什么、为什么要这样做，而是任由公众对问题的复杂性抓狂。但为难题树碑并不是一项政策。丘吉尔在写他的“桑葚”（Mulberry）码头（他的灵光一现的计划，在诺曼底登陆第二天架设预制浮栈桥）时如是说：“困难会为自己代言。”