Notes from Howard's Sabbatical from Working. The name comes from a 1998 lunch conversation. Someone asked if everything man knew was on the web. I answered "no" and off the top of my head said "Fidel Castro's favorite color". About every 6-12 months I've searched for this. It doesn't show up in the first 50 Google results (this blog is finally first for that search), AskJeeves says it's: red.
Thursday, May 04, 2006
Bush's Limited Thinking
Bob Burnett writes in the Huffington Post about Inside Bush's Brain. He refers to the "classic study of the Cuban Missile Crisis, Elements of Decision, Harvard Professor Graham Allison" which I actually read for a class in college (I think it was called Decision Making in American Political Institutions). His point is that Allison describes three modes of presidential decision making: rational, organizational and political. Burnett adds a 4th, "messianic" given Bush's statements that he's doing what God tells him to. Burnett points out that given the situation with Iran, we definitely need some more rational or organizational and less political or messianic, it's just we can't expect that from Bush.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
1 comment:
I took that class too. It was actually Decision Processes in American Political Institutions
Post a Comment