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Sep. 8th, 2008 04:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
winterbadgerThe problem with the Bush Administration, in one sentence:
from the Washington Post's excellent series on the White House's change of Iraq War strategy
[After a description of the way Bush browbeat a reluctant, almost rebellious Joint Chiefs of Staff into accepting the surge.] Still, Bush fully understood the power of his office.
"Generally," he said, "when the commander-in-chief walks in and says, done deal, they say, 'Yes sir, Mr. President.' "
Yes, of course. You don't listen to trained professionals, the top men in their field, when they tell you that what you are doing is dangerous, irresponsible, or unlikely to succeed. You jsut overrule them.
I think someone else did this too. And, as Bush will undoubtedly do (given that, within narrow parameters,t eh surge *did* work), drew the wrong lessons from some lucky guesses on his part early in his career of second-guessing.
from the Washington Post's excellent series on the White House's change of Iraq War strategy
[After a description of the way Bush browbeat a reluctant, almost rebellious Joint Chiefs of Staff into accepting the surge.] Still, Bush fully understood the power of his office.
"Generally," he said, "when the commander-in-chief walks in and says, done deal, they say, 'Yes sir, Mr. President.' "
Yes, of course. You don't listen to trained professionals, the top men in their field, when they tell you that what you are doing is dangerous, irresponsible, or unlikely to succeed. You jsut overrule them.
I think someone else did this too. And, as Bush will undoubtedly do (given that, within narrow parameters,t eh surge *did* work), drew the wrong lessons from some lucky guesses on his part early in his career of second-guessing.
