![]() ![]() (I don't write this to lead to a false equivalence position or a cynical "nothing matters because everyone's bad" position.) I wonder if one would be further ahead operating under the assumption that when things go bad, one should expect a lot of institutions to fail. ![]() Finally, it occurs to me that I often default to a two position understanding of many policy questions: if one side is wrong, the other is right. I also concluded that either Bush or his advisors mostly outmaneuvered the Democrats throughout his administration. Here, Yglesias points out how badly Democrats responded. ![]() But in reading Chris Whipple's Spymasters, I began to see that other institutions had also failed to defend public well being. The Invasion of Iraq is fairly high up on a list of things that I "sort of understand how they happened and yet still can't believe actually happened." For much of my life, I've blamed the Bush administration for the invasion-rightly, btw, as it's an inescapable conclusion from living through that time and from reading Bush's underrated memoir, Decision Points. Published in 2008, Matthew Yglesias's Heads in the Sand is a young journalist's memoir/ grad student's position paper disguised as an analysis of political discourse during the Bush administration. ![]()
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