Thursday, March 19, 2015

The Faces of Foreign Policy Failure

Political Cartoons by Michael Ramirez

G. Murphy Donovan "Personality is seldom thought to be relevant to national security analysis. Yet in the end, intelligence, policy, and failures are made by men -- and the occasional woman. We are fond of blaming history, institutions, processes, or systems for social and national security pathologies. Systems are the creations of ordinary men, too ordinary these days, it seems. Alas, there are no earthly institutions or human actions where men or personalities get off the hook. Failure is always personal.

"Carol Hanisch was correct. The personal is political too.

"Failure is about the wrong men in the wrong position at the wrong time. Five examples from the millennia era are Barack Hussein Obama, John Owen Brennan, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Martin E. Dempsey, and James Robert Clapper." . . .   Read more.

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