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Take a look at David Halberstam's book The Best and the Brightest. The people who made bad policy decisions with respect to Vietnam were among the finest produc
by GabrielF00 12y ago
Take a look at David Halberstam's book The Best and the Brightest. The people who made bad policy decisions with respect to Vietnam were among the finest products of the American educational system of that era.
- aswanson 12y agoAn indictment of what passes for education in the country, if nothing else. However, I wasn't restricting my judgement of bad leadership to the U.S.; look at the brutality of early Rome, kings throughout history, leaders of the "people" like Mao and the Khmer Rouge, or present-day plutonium-assassinator kleptocrat Putin. People, in general, grant power to the lowest of humanity.