Reckless Decision-Making Quotes
When she wrote her letter to the editor the Veterans administration sized her computer and accused her of sedition which is not a crime under American law. After complaints by the American Civil Liberties Union, the VA then did not file charges but had intimidated her.
Incredibly, most of the administration’s appointees to handle the occupation after the Iraq War invasion were chosen for their ideological conformity to George W. Bush and the neoconservatives rather than their experience at anything much less governance or Arab culture. Almost none spoke Arabic, almost none had ever studied the Arab World, much less traveled in the Middle East. Strikingly, almost none even prepared themselves by studying the history, sociology or economics of the region, and few knew anything about Islamic culture.
