“I thought we would succeed quicker than we did, and I am disappointed by the pace of success.”
President George W. Bush, at a press conference with Tony Blair, in response to a question about whether he would acknowledge his failures and change course in Iraq (quoted in Time Magazine, December 18, 2006).
I am reminded of my father’s description of the news in Nazi Germany when he was an American graduate student at the University of Berlin. So much of the “news” simply made no sense to an informed person.
p.s. Our president speaks (again): “The legislature’s job is to write law. It’s the executive branch’s job to interpret law.” Austin, TX, November 22, 2000.