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16. Mitt, if you were an effective leader, why was your foreign policy team full of neocons?
Mon Mar 24, 2014, 03:45 AM
Mar 2014

Were you just so awesome that you needed to handicap yourself with a bunch of people who'd been completely wrong, but didn't let that interfere with their agenda?

People who want us to actively get militarily involved in overthrowing the governments in Syria and Iran, and may have had some hand in egging on the coup in Ukraine the precipitated the current situation?

It's true that effective leaders need to be able to gauge situations and anticipate potential problems so that they don't get caught flatfooted somewhere down the line. But given how you were so convinced you were going to win the election that you didn't even have a draft of a concession speech, and surrounded yourself with people who had dismissed Bin Laden as 'some guy in a tent' and further failed to make any "Plan B"s in case their string of rosy assumptions for a quick & easy occupation of Iraq broke down anywhere along the way (a situation one could have anticipated by, oh, I dunno, any reading of military history), etc....

Given all that, what makes you think that you would qualify as an effective leader?

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