@ehBeth,
Quote:I think they're all dolts when it comes to Iraq.
That's a good example of Toyfort syndrome which I must say is a very common affliction.
It's a state of mind which likes to imagine, in the service of self-respect, that a situation like Iraq is something quite like those military style toy forts with plastic soldiers which can be moved about with great ease.
The actual situation is more like tumbling down a revolving chute in the dark mixed up with a dumpster load of trash whilst trying to look good and dreading the phone ringing and hoping there's a reasonably soft landing when eventually emerging into the light at the bottom.
Only a dolt would allow himself to get into such a position never mind beg and humiliate himself pleading for it.
So dolts are all you have Beth unless you know a way of getting the undolts to shape up.
In order to get into the positions which you claim are filled by dolts, assuming you're absolving the poor bloody infantry, it is generally necessary to have had the ambition and concomitant drive for a very long time. Mr Obama had the ambition to be President as a young man. So do many more.
Obviously the positions are such that some general idea of what is going on and how best to do things is required but at the age when the driving ambition first germinates it is obviously the case that no such expertise is possible and only a dolt would think it is. Or that being saluted thousands of times by big cheeses with rows of medals on their chests, signing your name half the time and sitting yourself on the coconut shy, is a proper way for a gentleman to pass his time in his one and only journey through this veil of tears and weary world of woe.
What would you have done differently?
