A Late Choice, Made Under Considerable Pressure, But Made Correctly
One of the inherent difficulties of a political system that appoints its own in every election is that it loses the talents of some very good people. Occasionally an FBI director is held over. Once in a while a CIA chief keeps his job, but it’s unusual.
One of the inherent difficulties of a political system that appoints its own in every election is that it loses the talents of some very good people. Occasionally an FBI director is held over. Once in a while a CIA chief keeps his job, but it’s unusual.
Such bureaucratic churning is a necessary part of changing our national underwear, but there are weaknesses and the more polarized our politics become, the more those weaknesses show. Certainly in these times of perceived and actual threat to our home turf, learning curves themselves are a weakness. It’s been mostly curves and damned little learning as the White House seems unable to get anything right.
I haven’t been much impressed by this administration’s choices for key positions within…