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Here's a bit of Richard Clarke's words about George Bush and the Administration as relayed in an editorial by Jeffrey Simpson in the Globe and Mail. The snip:
Mr. Clarke saw Mr. Bush infrequently, but formed this penetrating assessment: "It was clear that the critique of him as a dumb, lazy, rich kid was somewhat off the mark. When he focused, he asked the kind of questions that revealed a results-oriented mind, but he looked for the simple solution, the bumper-sticker description of the problem. Once he had that, he could put energy behind a drive to achieve his goal."My question is, imagine this is not the executive of any large organization: can you do it?But, Mr. Clarke continues, "The problem was that many of the important issues, like terrorism, like Iraq, were laced with important subtlety and nuance. These issues needed analysis, and Bush and his inner circle had no real interest in complicated analyses; on the issues they cared about, they already knew the answers; it was received wisdom."