re: #18 Talking Point Detective

Given what I’ve seen of your defense of Bush, I wonder if that comment reflects a potential misunderstanding of the Bush administration’s process on your part.

It wasn’t so much that the Bush administration was afraid of risk. Their problem was that they failed to do a basic risk assessment, because they felt doing so undermined the basis of their moral authority for action. It wasn’t that they were afraid of risk - it was the opposite, in fact - that they weren’t sufficiently afraid of risk because they didn’t perform due diligence.

Bolded for truth.