[shrinkermd]

I couldn't agree more. I had to excerpt this since it may be one of the organizations FR agreed to do this for.

[ClearCase_guy]

the president is a generalist who prefers the big picture to its details

Exactly what a president is supposed to do. That's why Reagan was great, and Clinton was a disaster. George W. Bush is a great president.

[mattdono]

This is something that most people don't think about. MBAs are taught this (or something similar) in their first few classes.

Vision >> Goals >> Strategies >> Tactics >> Projects

Everything flows from Vision; this is the "Grand Strategy" that the authors are alluding to.

No doubt that Bush's MBA is playing a role.

[xkaydet65]

Historians don't come better than John Gaddis. He is not afraid to permit new realities to shape his vision, unlike those such as Williams. whose reality was colored by his vision.

[RAY]

This author is right on! The strategy involves much more than WMD - though they are a factor. Bush's "style" is especially right for the Presidency. Jimmy Carter and others who were smart were also detail folks -- and failed, in part, because they were bogged down in details.

[KellyAdmirer]

I've felt that this war on terrorism has an awful lot of parallels with Jefferson's war on the barbary pirates.

[LiteKeeper]

SPOTREP - HISTORY - WAR - FOREIGN POLICY

[thinktwice]

Bush's doctrine of preemption

The right to self defense begins at the individual level and extends -- from there -- to national levels, and that right to self defense is what I'd call natural law.

In other words, preemptive strikes against rogue individuals takes precedence over sovereign national rights whenever such individuals are harbored by a nation.

There can be no such thing as sanctuary for individuals in a war against terrorists.