I think so too. The president’s concern should be to get good people he trusts who know this stuff and can advise him on it as the need to deal with various factions comes up. I bet that Graham knows who Sulemani and Al Baghdadi are but that does not mean he would be a good president.
Great point.
I was a manager in charge of a graphics dept. at an investment bank once, 70 workers coming and going and 100 investment bankers bringing down work for me to distribute to the 70.
I had 3 people under me that decided what markup to give to each worker based on speed, knowledge, etc.
I knew all my workers and their strengths and weaknesses for the most part.
But if I handed out all of the work, I could NEVER get done the necessary chores of a manager.
And MANY of the workers knew many more software packages than I knew. The three under me knew ALL of these packages. That’ what mattered.