[Pen-l] Re: Meritocracy: [was: Dying of Consumption

["Jim Devine" <jdevine03@xxxxxxxxx>]

awhile back, I wrote:
> ... Obama was bringing in the "best and the brightest"
> that US capitalism currently has, as opposed to the "most venial and
> ignorant" of the Bush administration.

For anyone who missed the reference, this is to David Halberstam's
book THE BEST AND THE BRIGHTEST. In it, he chronicles the history of
JFK's meritocrats and how they got the US in an extremely bloody,
criminal, and (in the end) pointless war in Vietnam. Will the current
crop of the "best" avoid this fate?
-- 
Jim Devine /  "Nobody told me there'd be days like these / Strange
days indeed -- most peculiar, mama." -- JL.
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