Comments on: The Devil You Know Versus the Devil You Don’t

By: craig henry

craig henry — Thu, 19 Aug 2004 08:35:31 +0000

Grand strategy with poor process? You just described Churchill in WWII.

No strategy and great process? That's the Wermacht.

Ummmm. Guess who won?

By: Heretical Ideas

Heretical Ideas — Thu, 19 Aug 2004 04:32:12 +0000

IS THE CHOICE REALLY VISION VS. COMPETENCE?
Daniel Drezner asks:This leads to an disturbing question. Which is better: a foreign policy with a clearly articulated grand strategy but a f#$%ed-up policy process, or a foreign policy with no articulated grand strategy but a superior policy process?M...

By: Patriot

Patriot — Thu, 19 Aug 2004 04:10:47 +0000

You guys are so right. I'd rather sacrifice American money and lives for a guy that used 9/11 as an excuse to invade a country that didn't attack us. Clarity: let's get Iraq. Frenchy-lover Kerry probably would have just gone after bin Laden instead.

Attacking caves instead of cities? He wouldn't know a good target if it bit him in the ass.

By: Steven Taylor

Steven Taylor — Thu, 19 Aug 2004 00:55:21 +0000

Indeed. I am by no means convinced that he offers a superior policy process. A less proactive one, yes, and therefore lower risk--but I am not sure that qualifies as "superior."

By: charles austin

charles austin — Wed, 18 Aug 2004 23:07:49 +0000

Kerry has a superior policy process? And what exactly would that be, aside from kissing France's, uh, ring.

By: Alan

Alan — Wed, 18 Aug 2004 22:44:45 +0000

It's a fake choice. Kerry is a talker, not a doer -- a George McClellan of our time. The option of well-executed strategy will never come to pass; we'll just cool our heels in the hallways of the UN.