re: #509 stpaulbear

But wasn’t Kissinger not so much of a fuck-up as he was extremely successful in inplementing what he wanted to do? What he wanted to do was fucked-up.

I think that the guys who Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld put in charge of the Iraq reconstruction were genuine fuck-ups. They really didn’t know what they were doing at all.

Knowledge and expertise weren’t the necessary qualifications according to the Bush administration.

To pass muster with O’Beirne, a political appointee who screens prospective political appointees for Defense Department posts, applicants didn’t need to be experts in the Middle East or in post-conflict reconstruction. What seemed most important was loyalty to the Bush administration. Washington Post