Did nothing everything would turn out OK. There's a possibility that that's true. And there's no doubt that there may be other plans out there that had we had two or three or six months to develop might be even more refined and might serve our purposes better. But we don't have that kind of time.
Obama discusses the urgency of addressing the current crisis and the limitations of time in developing better plans.
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