[Neidermeyer]

I second “Naive” ,, GHWB was naive enough to have been the vice president and not fully understand the nature of the enemy... He thought that he could skate through two terms slowly selling off the Reagan legacy.

[Carry_Okie]

GHWB was naive enough to have been the vice president and not fully understand the nature of the enemy...

GHWB was NOT naive enough to head the CIA in the middle of the cold war and fail to understand the enemy.

No way.