Zeev's Turnips Talk Politics (ZTTP)

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I think Josh missed something here. The Post wrote:
If career national security officials write tell-all accounts while the presidents they serve not only remain in office but are facing reelection, decision-making is bound to suffer. Presidents are more likely to surround themselves with political loyalists, depriving themselves of diverse ideas and valuable experience. Staff members are more likely to censor themselves for fear of later exposure.
To which Josh wrote: In other words, we're only in this terrible mess of having cross this woeful threshold because this shoeboater Clarke wrote this book. Friggin' backstabber!

He ought to have pointed out that Bush has surrounded himself with loyalists and people who think the same things and talk mostly to each other (they may lecture to other people, but that is different from talking to them). And did the Post say anything when Zinni or Shineski or Lindsey were fired for speaking their minds? Somehow I doubt it.