1776: Washington Learned from His Mistakes
I just finished David McCullough's 1776. It's a good book but I was struck by this one passage:
George Washington would never have gotten far if he hadn't learned from his mistakes. It took him a year and a half to get the hang of being a general. He seemed to do rather well in the years that followed.
After five years, Cheney, Rumsfeld and another president named George still don't seem to know how to govern though their expertise at blaming others seems to grow by the day.
Seeing things as they were, not as he would wish they were, was known to be one of Washington's salient strengths....
George Washington would never have gotten far if he hadn't learned from his mistakes. It took him a year and a half to get the hang of being a general. He seemed to do rather well in the years that followed.
After five years, Cheney, Rumsfeld and another president named George still don't seem to know how to govern though their expertise at blaming others seems to grow by the day.
posted by Poechewe at 4:02 PM
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