Comments on: Trump: I don’t trust U.S. intelligence information https://habitablezone.com/2016/08/17/trump-i-dont-trust-u-s-intelligence-information/ Sat, 11 Apr 2026 02:11:35 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: bowser https://habitablezone.com/2016/08/17/trump-i-dont-trust-u-s-intelligence-information/#comment-37371 bowser Sat, 27 Aug 2016 19:06:11 +0000 https://www.habitablezone.com/?p=59240#comment-37371 Let's just look at IRaq. Remember Saddam's WMDs? His uranium? How few troops it would take? Or cost $20 billion? Or how all the governments in the area will collapse into democratic havens? Remember that intelligence? No thinking person will trust any agency capable of those errors even if hit one once in a while. After all, even a blind hog finds an acorn every once in a while.ssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss Let’s just look at IRaq. Remember Saddam’s WMDs? His uranium? How few troops it would take? Or cost $20 billion? Or how all the governments in the area will collapse into democratic havens?

Remember that intelligence? No thinking person will trust any agency capable of those errors even if hit one once in a while. After all, even a blind hog finds an acorn every once in a while.ssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss

]]> By: BuckGalaxy https://habitablezone.com/2016/08/17/trump-i-dont-trust-u-s-intelligence-information/#comment-37262 BuckGalaxy Thu, 18 Aug 2016 03:11:44 +0000 https://www.habitablezone.com/?p=59240#comment-37262 ...is that any problem that lands on the president's desk is by definition going to be a very hard problem to solve. Anything that was easy to solve was solved farther down the chain of command. …is that any problem that lands on the president’s desk is by definition going to be a very hard problem to solve. Anything that was easy to solve was solved farther down the chain of command.

]]> By: ER https://habitablezone.com/2016/08/17/trump-i-dont-trust-u-s-intelligence-information/#comment-37261 ER Thu, 18 Aug 2016 01:24:50 +0000 https://www.habitablezone.com/?p=59240#comment-37261 That all problems yield to bold action, or reckless courage. Those who don't share that view are just weak, cowardly, indecisive; they must be quitters, losers, pansies. The Trumps of this world mistake caution for indecision, and reflection for cowardice. They do not see complexities or what may go wrong, they do not appreciate subtlety or delicacy. They think every one else over-thinks what are really simple problems, obstacles which will yield to Will. Their motto is "Most problems have simple, obvious answers." It never occurs to people like this that some, if not most, problems have no easy solutions. They don't seem to understand that sometimes the best you can do is negotiate the best possible of many awful outcomes; the least painful. They can't grasp that a slow and disciplined retreat may be the only alternative to a total rout and complete annihilation. If the intelligence is bad, it must be because your people have no courage, or no smarts, or worse, that they are cowards or lying, or unimaginative. The Trumps of this world sometimes enjoy initial successes. Their reckless and foolish aggression may initially overwhelm their enemies who are not prepared for such risk taking. But like Hitler, and Napoleon, whatever initial brilliance they may have is soon squandered by pushing too hard, and too fast, and not having thought out or ahead to be able to consolidate and exploit their initial successes. Their brilliant assaults bog down when their enemies fail to collapse as expected, and they find themselves over-extended and spread too thin, at the end of long, failing supply lines as winter closes in. It is not just the Trumps of this world who are like this. Their followers are attracted to this mind-set, they are tempted by the promise of being able to substitute aggression for preparation, raw courage for solemn determination. Basically, under all their frantic bravado, they are just lazy. That all problems yield to bold action, or reckless courage. Those who don’t share that view are just weak, cowardly, indecisive; they must be quitters, losers, pansies. The Trumps of this world mistake caution for indecision, and reflection for cowardice. They do not see complexities or what may go wrong, they do not appreciate subtlety or delicacy. They think every one else over-thinks what are really simple problems, obstacles which will yield to Will. Their motto is “Most problems have simple, obvious answers.”

It never occurs to people like this that some, if not most, problems have no easy solutions. They don’t seem to understand that sometimes the best you can do is negotiate the best possible of many awful outcomes; the least painful. They can’t grasp that a slow and disciplined retreat may be the only alternative to a total rout and complete annihilation. If the intelligence is bad, it must be because your people have no courage, or no smarts, or worse, that they are cowards or lying, or unimaginative.

The Trumps of this world sometimes enjoy initial successes. Their reckless and foolish aggression may initially overwhelm their enemies who are not prepared for such risk taking. But like Hitler, and Napoleon, whatever initial brilliance they may have is soon squandered by pushing too hard, and too fast, and not having thought out or ahead to be able to consolidate and exploit their initial successes. Their brilliant assaults bog down when their enemies fail to collapse as expected, and they find themselves over-extended and spread too thin, at the end of long, failing supply lines as winter closes in.

It is not just the Trumps of this world who are like this. Their followers are attracted to this mind-set, they are tempted by the promise of being able to substitute aggression for preparation, raw courage for solemn determination. Basically, under all their frantic bravado, they are just lazy.

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