Petraeus himself clearly understood the primacy of appearances over reality. ``What policymakers believe to have taken place in any particular situation is more important than what actually occurred,'' he wrote in his 1987 Princeton dissertation.
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2012/11/20121121114549612880.html Obviously, the above applies to the entire political establishment who seem absolutely determined to be as anti-kantian as their in-house economists. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
