> Gautam Mukunda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Deborah Harrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Do you have a link for this information? Thanks. <sniplet> > I remember reading it in Vanity Fair...a quick > Google comes up with this from the Boston Herald: > http://news.bostonherald.com/opinion/view.bg?articleid=440 Thank you. > I am, personally, rather amazed at the brouhaha over > the decision. Was it a bad one? Yes, absolutely. > What was the circumstance of the people involved? > Well, they were probably under more stress than just > about anyone else in the world at that point in time > - > stress that only a relative handful of other people > could ever have felt, almost all of those people > national leaders in wartime. What do we know about > people making decisions under stress in regimes of > high uncertainty? We know that they are really, > really crappy at it. The amazing thing is that > everyone involved - Clarke included, who did an > exemplary job on 9/11 - made as few mistakes as the > did. The fact that this plane left when it did is a > sign of corruption only to someone who's never had > to make difficult decisions in a high pressure > environment. What it really is a sign of is that > people screw up under pressure. That's what makes > them human. I agree -- it is extremely difficult to come to logical conclusions -and act on them- when you don't have all the facts, the roof is figuratively (or literally) falling around your ears, and you're scared and furious. Debbi When You're Up To Your Ass In Alligators, It's Hard To Remember That Your Original Objective Was To Drain The Swamp Maru }:/ __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business $15K Web Design Giveaway http://promotions.yahoo.com/design_giveaway/ _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
