Wow. That was complete garbage. She opens with this gem...Originally Posted by Fuchs
Then she goes on to call Petraeus a "warrior-general". Really!? I respect the guy's service, but c'mon. Mattis is a "warrior-general." And later on she starts talking about hairstyles, push-ups and pressing clothes, when she's not making grand canyon sized leaps. The whole thing read like a high school gossip column.Allen's superhuman ability to write 20,000 to 30,000 pages of "potentially inappropriate" email
*For the record, I don't think generals should head the CIA
Ignore the entertainment, focus on the remarks about different organisational culture.
From the post:Is it? Or is it to predict?The CIA's primary mission is to learn.
If you don’t read the newspaper, you are uninformed; if you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed. – Mark Twain (attributed)
I'd say it's both. You can have all the knowledge in the world, but if you can't discern and understand what you are looking at, you're worthless as an intelligence agency.
1st you need to learn about others and things before you can predict. Predictions are furthermore always questionable, so being able to present facts first and treat predictions at most as the icing on the cake appears to be reasonable to me.
Not a good match
A comment by Nigel Inkster, ex-SIS (MI6), on the cited FP article.I'm not so sure about militarisation but culturally this wasn't a good match
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Nov. 15-18 Gallup poll
Petraeus' Image Takes Hit, Still More Positive Than Negative
Majority says it was necessary he resign
http://www.gallup.com/poll/158891/pe...ersion=Android
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