Bush & Co's Short Term Focus
Bush & Co. only seem to see the here and now and the immediate future. And that's a serious problem for the President of the United States. Let me repeat that: that's a serious problem for the President of the United States. It really scares me about the Bush administration.
The flu vaccine is a good example. See my previous post about that here. With proper planning and foresight, there would have been only minor supply problems. Like in England.
Another example, of which we are all acutely aware, is the invasion of Iraq and the post-war planning. Certainly more than enough has been said about that over the last 6 months.
Also the many environmental issues. Like withdrawing from the Kyoto treaty. And many more issues that have been rolled back under this administration. There is so much that I cannot even start to cover it in this blog. The point is, in my opinion these changes were made for the short term, completey ignoring long term impacts.
And I know there has been no really concrete evidence, but . . . I think that lack of foresight in the present administration allowed the 9/11 events to occur. This included ignoring and suppressing reports and people that did not fit into the then current administration policies. These were people trying to tell them a problem was brewing and they didn't listen. The Suskind article in last Sunday's New York Times Magazine builds a good case for this in the more recent past. So it most likely was also occuring pre-911 about al-Qaida.
I know it's easy to say these things after the fact, but these guys are getting the big bucks to think things through so we won't have these problems. I think a lot of the blame is Bush's and the way he makes decisions and runs the country. By gut feel. Off the top of his head. By the seat of his pants. It's really scary. Suskind's article supports this.
There are many people saying he has a messianic complex. He doesn't think things through because he believes he's the voice of God. And doesn't have to think things through because whatever he says is always right. He may have a messianic complex, but I certainly pray that he doesn't because of what it implies if he does.
I think the problem is that Bush is over his head in the job. That would explain some of the tales about how things currently are working in the White House. Like why he won't discuss issues and won't tolerate differing opinions. I think it's not that he won't, but rather that he can't. Because he doesn't have the grasp of the details required to do that. And doesn't want to admit it.
Bush & Co. only seem to see the here and now and the immediate future. And that's a serious problem for the President of the United States. Let me repeat that: that's a serious problem for the President of the United States. It really scares me about the Bush administration.
The flu vaccine is a good example. See my previous post about that here. With proper planning and foresight, there would have been only minor supply problems. Like in England.
Another example, of which we are all acutely aware, is the invasion of Iraq and the post-war planning. Certainly more than enough has been said about that over the last 6 months.
Also the many environmental issues. Like withdrawing from the Kyoto treaty. And many more issues that have been rolled back under this administration. There is so much that I cannot even start to cover it in this blog. The point is, in my opinion these changes were made for the short term, completey ignoring long term impacts.
And I know there has been no really concrete evidence, but . . . I think that lack of foresight in the present administration allowed the 9/11 events to occur. This included ignoring and suppressing reports and people that did not fit into the then current administration policies. These were people trying to tell them a problem was brewing and they didn't listen. The Suskind article in last Sunday's New York Times Magazine builds a good case for this in the more recent past. So it most likely was also occuring pre-911 about al-Qaida.
I know it's easy to say these things after the fact, but these guys are getting the big bucks to think things through so we won't have these problems. I think a lot of the blame is Bush's and the way he makes decisions and runs the country. By gut feel. Off the top of his head. By the seat of his pants. It's really scary. Suskind's article supports this.
There are many people saying he has a messianic complex. He doesn't think things through because he believes he's the voice of God. And doesn't have to think things through because whatever he says is always right. He may have a messianic complex, but I certainly pray that he doesn't because of what it implies if he does.
I think the problem is that Bush is over his head in the job. That would explain some of the tales about how things currently are working in the White House. Like why he won't discuss issues and won't tolerate differing opinions. I think it's not that he won't, but rather that he can't. Because he doesn't have the grasp of the details required to do that. And doesn't want to admit it.
posted by Larry @ 10:03 AM
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home