Pride Plus Power Is A Deadly Combination*
Overweening pride without any sense of humility plus disproportionate power often leads to serious blind spots and biases, and egregious blunders in statecraft. We have seen such errors repeatedly in…
Re: The Debacle In Afghanistan (WSJ 8/13/21)
WSJ’s embedded comment in this opinion piece states that “…Biden and Trump share responsibility for the looming defeat (in the Afghanistan War)….” This statement is contrafactual in the extreme. In…