Quote Originally Posted by Bob's World View Post
My concern are the guys and gals who brief him up on his options prior to making those decisions. With an overly threat-focused intel community; and an overly state-foucsed policy team; we are ill equipped to provide him the type of analysis that is most relevant for the world we live in today. Between the "Good Cold Warriors" on one side, and the neo-socialists on the other the voices of reason are either too few or simply not allowed access to the debate.
I suspect that after our guys and gals brief him on his options (or tell him what we want him to do), his own guys come in and tell him what they want to do... and I suspect he listens more to his own guys. It's easier for him to feed us BS than it is for him the feed it to his own crowd

I think you're probably right about the exclusion of voices of reason..