A former Pentagon staffer has written an op-ed for the Houston Chronicle which seems to confirm what many have thought about the PNAC and AEI alums in the Pentagon and at State. She observed three “themes:”
- Functional isolation of the military professionals
- Cross-agency cliques
- Groupthink
Regarding the latter, she says:
The result of groupthink has been extensively studied in the history of American foreign policy, and it will have a prominent role when the history of the Bush administration is written. Groupthink, in this most recent case leading to invasion and occupation of Iraq, will be found, I believe, to have caused a subversion of constitutional limits on executive power and a co-optation through deceit of a large segment of the Congress.
It’s quite an indictment; go read. One hopes the country survives this sort of arrogance.
Wow, talk about an interesting op-ed! Thanks, Steve.
Go Hops!