tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31246093.post4958410734319866209..comments2024-03-28T12:29:39.157-07:00Comments on Graphic Firing Table: Hoarse WhispererFDChiefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10607785969510234092noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31246093.post-40297071616735929242013-01-05T00:39:35.221-07:002013-01-05T00:39:35.221-07:00Good point; I think part of the accepting that a l...Good point; I think part of the accepting that a lot of this shit is just outside our capability to "plan" for - not that the DoS shouldn't plan, but just that we shouldn't kid ourselves about how well we have things "planned" - is recognizing that there really <br />IS such a thing as a "gift" for diplomacy...<br /><br />State used to have people like this gal, but a lot of them were purged after 1949 and a lot more were turfed out after State became less of a playground for rich dilettantes and more of a bureaucracy...I don't know if we could ever reconstruct the "old" State Department or even if we should.<br /><br />But it did have its strengths, and this sort of intuition and craft was one of them...FDChiefhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10607785969510234092noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31246093.post-78118939371451436892013-01-04T16:41:24.065-07:002013-01-04T16:41:24.065-07:00Sometimes individuals can get things right when th...Sometimes individuals can get things <a href="http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/asia-pacific/japan/130103/american-woman-who-helped-write-the-japanese-constit" rel="nofollow">right</a> when the grand plan would have left things mucked up.Aelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10788190394672505925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31246093.post-66437646151840335812013-01-04T15:17:22.259-07:002013-01-04T15:17:22.259-07:00No question. But the cynical grin comes from the ...No question. But the cynical grin comes from the public pose of <i>"Remain calm! We know what we're doing!"</i> when you get the strong feeling that half the time the powers that be are pulling this stuff out of their ass...<br /><br />Which sort of plays back to the kinds of dumb shit that soldiers wind up getting into because their "superiors" can't figure out how to pit the pin back in the grenade they just dropped...or even that they DROPPED the grenade...FDChiefhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10607785969510234092noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31246093.post-79523756045970389872013-01-04T14:19:26.056-07:002013-01-04T14:19:26.056-07:00The phrase "trial and error" comes to mi...The phrase "trial and error" comes to mind....heavy on the "error" from time to time.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com