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Feral Finster's avatar

If you say that you are against war, but you never met a war that you didn't like, you are definitely Bill Kristol.

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Mark P's avatar

RE: "Any group of policymakers and analysts is bound to get things wrong, sometimes badly wrong. When you have an unaccountable class that never pays any professional price for plunging the country into disasters, the incentive to learn from past errors is weak." --

I remember after the end of the Bush II administration, the policymakers responsible for the Iraq war were rewarded with newspaper columns, think tank chairs, and visiting professorships. Opponents of the Iraq War got nothing. I was actually surprised by this blatant rewarding of incompetents and for the first time began to feel that something was seriously wrong with our political system, our media, and our society.

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