Comments on: Strange bedfellows http://www.davosnewbies.com/2006/12/08/strange-bedfellows/ A year-round Davos of the mind, written since 1999 by Lance Knobel Sat, 28 Jan 2012 12:38:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: J. Richard Finlay http://www.davosnewbies.com/2006/12/08/strange-bedfellows/comment-page-1/#comment-31923 J. Richard Finlay Wed, 13 Dec 2006 04:09:39 +0000 http://www.davosnewbies.com/2006/12/08/strange-bedfellows/#comment-31923 Paul Krugman is voicing a sentiment that is beginning to be more widely accepted in the face of the clear defeat of Administration polices at home and growing civil war in Iraq –conditions that might have been prevented or minimized had there been a climate which allowed for informed discussion earlier on. It was not to be found. There was in the aftermath of 9-11 a disturbing inclination on the part of the White House and others to marginalize those who asked certain questions or raised certain doubts about events leading to the war and the foundation of the decisions being made –events and decisions long since discredited even by former Administration officials and supporters –and to tar them with the brush of giving aid and comfort to the enemy. The freedom enjoyed by Americans is also accompanied by the corresponding obligation to hold the mighty to account, to not conform to conventional wisdom without due deliberation, and, even occasionally, to opt out of a lock-step march with the powerful in their self-appointed rendezvous with destiny. I explore some of the governance failures leading up to this tragic point in American history at http://finlayongovernance.com/?p=99. Paul Krugman is voicing a sentiment that is beginning to be more widely accepted in the face of the clear defeat of Administration polices at home and growing civil war in Iraq –conditions that might have been prevented or minimized had there been a climate which allowed for informed discussion earlier on. It was not to be found. There was in the aftermath of 9-11 a disturbing inclination on the part of the White House and others to marginalize those who asked certain questions or raised certain doubts about events leading to the war and the foundation of the decisions being made –events and decisions long since discredited even by former Administration officials and supporters –and to tar them with the brush of giving aid and comfort to the enemy. The freedom enjoyed by Americans is also accompanied by the corresponding obligation to hold the mighty to account, to not conform to conventional wisdom without due deliberation, and, even occasionally, to opt out of a lock-step march with the powerful in their self-appointed rendezvous with destiny.

I explore some of the governance failures leading up to this tragic point in American history at http://finlayongovernance.com/?p=99.

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