Obviously, They're Dumb
April 17, 2004
Adlai E. Stevenson III takes a turn through 20th century history to review the intelligence failures of the Bush Administration. (42M)
= A Different Kind of Intelligence Failure (42N)
Before 9/11, neoconservatives like Condoleezza Rice, the national security adviser, and Vice President Dick Cheney inhabited a world of contending great powers in which force and technology were transcendent. Terrorists armed with box cutters — and now Iraqis resisting the occupation — have exploded their fantasy. The failures of the Bush administration are not those of foreign intelligence but of a cerebral sort of intelligence. (42O)
That's the last paragraph of the editorial. (42P)
This reminds me of an email conversation where I complained about the apparent value of stating the obvious from a position of authority. (42Q)
Comments
I wish I could remember where I saw this in the past 48 hours... (42V)
"The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence because it is so rare.” – Daniel Patrick Moynihan" (42W)
I wish I could remember where I saw this in the past 48 hours... (42X)
"The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence because it is so rare.” – Daniel Patrick Moynihan" (42Y)