[crossposted at Booman Tribune]
O.K. the title is a little odd and this is a little long but bear with me.
Over the last couple of days I have been reading Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror by Richard A.Clarke. If you have not read it yet, I would highly recommend it.
I had an epiphany when I read this paragraph,
From the interactions I did have with Bush it was clear that the critique of him as a dumb, lazy rich kid were somewhat off the mark. When he focused, he asked the kind of questions that revealed a results-oriented mind, but he looked for the simple solution, the bumper sticker description of the problem. Once he had that, he could put energy behind a drive to achieve his goal. The problem was that many of the important issues, like terrorism, like Iraq, were laced with important subtlety and nuance. These issues needed analysis and Bush and his inner circle had no real interest in complicated analyses; on the issues that they cared about, they already knew the answers, it was received wisdom. (page 243 - emphasis mine)
More over the jump.
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