Analysis by John Feffer:
Trump’s war on the intelligence community is part of his more general war on intelligence. He just doesn’t care what the best and the brightest tell him.
And that’s the tragedy of it all. The best and the brightest gave us the war in Afghanistan as surely as they gave us the war in Vietnam. And they continued to rationalize and justify enormous commitments of money and soldiers to failed enterprises because to do otherwise was to admit that they had made some appalling, Stooges-like blunders. Smart people hate to admit that they’ve done stupid things.
Which sometimes leaves the field open for stupid people, like Trump, to do smart things. Just don’t expect him to make a habit of it.
You can read the rest @
https://original.antiwar.com/feffer/2019/02/07/trumps-at-war-with-u-s-intelligence-and-for-once-hes-right/
I never did like the term "the best and the brightest", because as the author suggests they really do screw things up over and over.
It's time to try something new, and if it's ruled to be "stupid" then so be it. The important thing is whether it works.
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