Re:Dropbox Is Struggling and Competitors Are Catching Up
by kzhahou on Thursday June 25, 2015 @12:04AM
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Obviously shaky --> "Curveball," the informant. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curveball_%28informant%29
> Despite warnings from the German Federal Intelligence Service and the British Secret Intelligence Service questioning the authenticity of the claims, the US Government and British government utilized them to build a rationale for military action in the lead up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq
Should she have known the cost (in $$$ and lives)? It was her job and that of every senior leader involved. They grossly underestimated the effort. Their colossal mistake wasn't just an oopsy-daisy to be waved away.
Incompetence at that scale should follow you around for your whole life.
* She almost definitely did not advise anyone to spend 1.7 trillion dollars on anything. Did she know how costly the war would be? Should she have known?
* "Obviously shaky" is easy to say in hindsight. What did she know when? What should she have known?
* Did she even advise the President to go to war? We don't know what she said behind closed doors. SecState works at the pleasure of the President-- it is entirely possible she opposed the war personally and in private counsel, but played the good soldier in public.
* If she did personally oppose the war to your satisfaction, was it wrong of her to play the good soldier, regardless of the circumstances? I tend to think so. But was it so wrong that she should be blacklisted from public life?
Life is messy.