We need to learn from history, and from current events. I’m listening to CNN right now. CNN says:
Nobody knew ISIS was capable of this. Nobody thought ISIS would attack in Europe.
The MSM ignores half of the -experts-, the ones who don’t say what they want to hear. Then, after the ignored experts are proven correct, the MSM says “nobody knew”.
But it isn’t just the MSM, a week after Katrina, Bush said “nobody knew Katrina would hit N.O.” Of course, 8 days before Katrina hit N.O. it was over southern FL and the National Weather Service gave a 100% prediction that Katrina would hit New Orleans, breach the levees and flood half the city.
Cheney-Wolfowitz-Kristol did a similar thing in Iraq. They won the first move in what Bush said would be a long, protracted chess game. But the neo-cons had no idea what the second move in the chess game should be. They had no plan for what to do with the Iraqi army. They had no idea how to build a new government in Iraq.
The neo-cons in Iraq were exactly like the McNamara best and brightest who ran the Vietnam war for LBJ.
The problem is not limited to “the other guys”. Look at the Carson, Cruz and Trump campaigns. They seem to have no clue how delegates are selected for the GOP Convention. They allow the media to distract them with polls rather than identify delegates who can win against the Bush delegates.
When they lose, are they going to say “Nobody knew how delegates were selected.”
CNN ? Hell, everyone of us knew ISIS could do this.