A Washington Post columnist mirrors Dave’s earlier post about Bush’s management style.
Money quotes:
it is that unwillingness to get into the details and the lack of interest in hearing divergent views that create a kind of ideological rigidity, rendering Bush incapable of admitting mistakes or considering changes in direction.
The Bush team likes to crow that it brought disciplined, private-sector management to government. But as Joshua Marshall wrote last year in the Washington Monthly, theirs turns out to be a largely discredited, old-economy management style — one better suited for the cartel-like oil, drug and railroad industries they came from than the messy, fast-changing realities facing the government of the United States.
On a further note, I would like to differentiate myself from the Minister of Propaganda and the Air Marshal. I do not think that there were shady, ulterior motives in Bush and Cheney’s heart when they launched the war. I think that they legitimately were trying to make the world a better place. My real beef is with the intellectual inflexibility and doctrinaire ideology that has doomed their attempt to improve the world situation.
