First of all we are hardly the only country where stupidity reigns at the very top.....many other countries are just as bad and in many cases even worse.
But since we are Americans we need to examine ourselves first.
Anyone with even a passing knowledge of history understands we have a long,long history of poor leadership.
America succeeded not because we had good leadership but in spite of a lack of it....though at particular times we have had good leadership ---- it is an exception to the rule when we were so fortunate.
No one has described this phenomenon of utter stupidity at the highest levels of government better than Winston Churchill talking about the failed policies of England toward Germany.
“When the situation was manageable it was neglected, and now that it is thoroughly out of hand, we apply too late the remedies which then might have effected a cure. There is nothing new in the story. It is as old as the Sibylline books. It falls into that long dismal catalogue of the fruitlessness of experience and the confirmed unteachability of mankind. Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong — these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.” Winston Churchill
But since we are Americans we need to examine ourselves first.
Anyone with even a passing knowledge of history understands we have a long,long history of poor leadership.
America succeeded not because we had good leadership but in spite of a lack of it....though at particular times we have had good leadership ---- it is an exception to the rule when we were so fortunate.
No one has described this phenomenon of utter stupidity at the highest levels of government better than Winston Churchill talking about the failed policies of England toward Germany.
“When the situation was manageable it was neglected, and now that it is thoroughly out of hand, we apply too late the remedies which then might have effected a cure. There is nothing new in the story. It is as old as the Sibylline books. It falls into that long dismal catalogue of the fruitlessness of experience and the confirmed unteachability of mankind. Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong — these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.” Winston Churchill
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