Quote Originally Posted by Rank amateur View Post
OK. I learn a lot here. So putting it all together Steve's recommendation is "Next time, do what we were going to do before Cheney and his friends screwed everything up."

Or did I miss some of the nuance?
To me the big issue is the relationship of leadership and expertise. After 9/11 administration policymakers were convinced that since the experts had missed that one, they weren't to be trusted on anything. So they ignored them. It was pure hubris right out of a Greek tragedy or Lear.