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To: tekboy who wrote (78398)	2/28/2003 12:35:40 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) of 281500

Lindy compared my expression of the foreign policy professionals' hauteur or "God complex" with that of doctors, and I think that's not such a bad analogy. OK, let's continue it. 1) The Doctors: The Foreign Policy Experts 2) The "comatose" Patient: The Country 3) The Family with the right to make the decisions: The Politicians The Doctors advise, the Family makes the decisions, the the Doctor does as he is told, or quits. Or, if I own a Business, and call an expert in to advise me, I then decide what is the best way to go. History is filled with cases where the "Experts" were wrong about what should be done. They are always right in retrospect. That is why "Experts" advice is delivered with a lot of "on one hand, but on the other hand." We were all exclaiming over the quality of a book from last year that showed that our top Leaders had ignored, modified, or rejected the advice of their respective Military Leaders and have been successful. To rephrase a famous quote. "Foreign Policy is much too important to be left to the experts."

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