On Nov 5, 2004, at 10:20 PM, Dan Minette wrote:
From: "JDG" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Well, I won't debate this at length because we certainly shall see. Iampartisanpersonally not one to believe that people who otherwise seem quite intelligent are actually phenomenally stupid. (Please no stupidjokes here.)
But, I see it all the time. The management team at the last company I
worked for before going independent kept on making the same mistake over
and over again. They were told why they were making mistakes by underlings
who actually understood the business. They were told to get with the
program..or else.
Or, look at all the sincere, well educated, brilliant Marxist professors in
the '70s. I'm talking about people who were far to the left of me in my
more liberal student days. Their power of denial was a strong as their
basic intelligence.
Or, look at the mistakes of "the Best and the Brightest" in assessing 'Nam.
The obviously nonpartisan* Frontline did an in depth analysis of Kerry and Bush last week. Discussed, among other things, was how Powell handled the Persian Gulf under earlier administrations. Under BI, they studied Sun-Tzu. Under BII, no one ref'd any kind of classics on strategy at all. The conspicuity of absence was glaring and unsettling.
I'll fully agree with you on one point: our different opinions concerning
Bush will be subject to experimental verification....so I can see your
reluctance to spend time on speculation.
Gosh, you both sound like guys whose lives aren't on the line, who have no kids that are serving overseas now, might not be drafted ... and who believe that there's some kind of ghost that lives on after the body dies.
There are many others who aren't as comfortably cushioned by distance.
This ain't speculation, boys. This is reality and your "thought experiments" play out on a real crimson stage every day.
I ask you who's being really conservative when peaceniks insist that d�tente is almost always preferable while hawks scream for gore and ivory towerians pontificate about verification and eventualities.**
-- Warren Ockrassa, Publisher/Editor, nightwares Books http://books.nightwares.com/ Current work in progress "The Seven-Year Mirror" http://www.nightwares.com/books/ockrassa/Flat_Out.pdf
*Sarcasm.
**Not sarcasm at all.
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