Part 1: "Top Republicans Break With Bush on Iraq Strategy", By TODD S. PURDUM and PATRICK E. TYLER
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/16/international/middleeast/16IRAQ.html
"Richard N. Perle, a former Reagan administration official and one of the leading hawks who has been orchestrating an urgent approach to attacking Iraq, said today that Mr. Scowcroft's arguments were misguided and naïve.
`I think Brent [Scowcroft] just got it wrong,' he said by telephone from France. `The failure to take on Saddam after what the president said would produce such a collapse of confidence in the president that it would set back the war on terrorism.'
Mr. Perle added, `I think it is naïve to believe that we can produce results in the 50-year-old dispute between the Israelis and the Arabs, and therefore this is an excuse for not taking action.' "
Part 2: "After Criticism, a Top Analyst Quits Salomon", By GRETCHEN MORGENSON
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/16/business/16BROK.html
"Jack Grubman ignored obvious signs of trouble at WorldCom, including repeated downgrades by credit- rating agencies," said Martin Weiss, chairman at Weiss Ratings Inc., an independent research firm. "He was clearly a leading proponent of WorldCom shares, almost to the bitter end, despite abundant signs of trouble."
What is naïve is in-bred group-'think' which cannot see beyond the artificial boundaries set-up when folks put 'group-cohesivness' ahead of getting-the-facts.
In other words, the Problem in the 'government' instance is exactly the Same-Stuff as ts the Problem in the 'business' instance.
The Problem is in-bred group-'think': "We know what we're doing here[, and nobody else does]."
Such is a dangerous Illusion born of in-bred group-'think'.
Why not give understanding a chance?
k. p. collins
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