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Wisdom
Nearly everything the administration did (and Rudy is following along) falls apart when confronted by a simple aphorism:
The wisdom to act is not wisdom in the actions chosen.
No one, now or ever, proposed we do nothing after 9/11. That by no means amounts to rubber stamping whatever wanders into our heads to do. With regard to Iraq: What made that war, at that time, in that way, THE way to proceed in the wake of 9/11, and against Islamic radicalism? By all means take the offensive, but only after careful consideration over just what is the WISE thing to do. If WWI and Vietnam teach us anything, it is that being stupid is just as dangerous as being weak and irresolute.