This wasn't about cheating - this was about war leaders making decisions during times of war or conflict (or what they believed was war).
As a President (or political leader) you will need to make hard decisions.
And you are guaranteed to annoy some sub-section of the population by your decisions.
And like it or not, conflict (or war) is a part of our world - and as a leader, you need to make tough calls.
We can dissect those decisions afterwards - and offer our own commentary. But I am not arrogant enough to think that I would make a better President or political leader - I don't have the stomach for those sorts of decisions, or a thick enough skin.
My question to you - do you think you could make better calls in each of those cases?
Personal opinion - I didn't agree with a lot of Bush Jr's decisions. However, I think he did the best with the information and advice he had. Whilst some people may not like him, I don't think anybody has actually ever accused him of being outright deceptive, or misleading? (Stupid, perhaps, but he was anything if not earnest).
Another thing - often on HN, we don't understand that we aren't really the majority - we're in our own little echo chamber here (for better or worse).
Most of us are fairly affluent, technologically advanced - and let's face it, out of touch with the average person.
And some of us are also part of the tin-foil hat crowd =).
Take the Snowden leaks - a lot of us are up in arms about the invasion of liberties (and possibly for good reason).
But for many average people, Snowden is nothing more than an American traitor - and the fact that we're spying on other nations? "Gee, I thought that's what our government was meant to do?". A lot of the people outside of tech don't really care that much about the invasion of privacy - they are so far removed from that sort of thing that it doesn't really impact them (or so they think).
This wasn't about cheating - this was about war leaders making decisions during times of war or conflict (or what they believed was war).
As a President (or political leader) you will need to make hard decisions.
And you are guaranteed to annoy some sub-section of the population by your decisions.
And like it or not, conflict (or war) is a part of our world - and as a leader, you need to make tough calls.
We can dissect those decisions afterwards - and offer our own commentary. But I am not arrogant enough to think that I would make a better President or political leader - I don't have the stomach for those sorts of decisions, or a thick enough skin.
My question to you - do you think you could make better calls in each of those cases?
Personal opinion - I didn't agree with a lot of Bush Jr's decisions. However, I think he did the best with the information and advice he had. Whilst some people may not like him, I don't think anybody has actually ever accused him of being outright deceptive, or misleading? (Stupid, perhaps, but he was anything if not earnest).
Another thing - often on HN, we don't understand that we aren't really the majority - we're in our own little echo chamber here (for better or worse).
Most of us are fairly affluent, technologically advanced - and let's face it, out of touch with the average person.
And some of us are also part of the tin-foil hat crowd =).
Take the Snowden leaks - a lot of us are up in arms about the invasion of liberties (and possibly for good reason).
But for many average people, Snowden is nothing more than an American traitor - and the fact that we're spying on other nations? "Gee, I thought that's what our government was meant to do?". A lot of the people outside of tech don't really care that much about the invasion of privacy - they are so far removed from that sort of thing that it doesn't really impact them (or so they think).