And that's precisely the recipe James Baker scribbled on a 3x5 card in 2002. Yet now, after suffering acute ptomaine poisoning, we hire the same chef to cook us up a plan for victory in Iraq! Glenn Greenwald, as always, shines a spotlight on this absurdity.
Unclaimed Territory - by Glenn Greenwald: What rational person would listen to people like James Baker?
If you go to a doctor for an operation and he completely botches your surgery and you lose an organ due to his abject ineptitude and recklessness, you don't go back to that doctor for repair surgery; you find another one. If you go to a lawyer who almost destroys your company through complete ignorance of your basic legal obligations, you don't stay with that lawyer in the hope that he will get you out of the disaster he created for you; you retain another one. All of that is just basic common sense.Unfortunately, common sense is not a common thing.
Yet here we are, revering and listening to and following the same dense, amoral people who could not have been more wrong about everything they recommended and asserted prior to this war, while we scorn or (at best) ignore those who were so right. As but one example, one of the appointees on the Commission was the wildly extremist, warmongering American Enterprise Institute's Michael Rubin, though he is really different only in degree, not in kind, from most of the other Commission members and "experts" on whom they relied.
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