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photon · 12-02-2016, 11:36 AM

A pretty great email response from the incoming secretary of defense commenting about being too busy to read.

The problem with being too busy to read is that you learn by experience (or by your men’s experience), i.e. the hard way. By reading, you learn through others’ experiences, generally a better way to do business, especially in our line of work where the consequences of incompetence are so final for young men.

Thanks to my reading, I have never been caught flat-footed by any situation, never at a loss for how any problem has been addressed (successfully or unsuccessfully) before. It doesn’t give me all the answers, but it lights what is often a dark path ahead.

http://www.businessinsider.com/gener...-viral-2016-11

There's a theory going around that Romney is subjecting himself to the public humiliation he's getting because he actually cares about his country and thinks he'll be in a better position to mitigate Trump if necessary as SoS. Or he could just be craven but I'm picking the former heh.

Mattis doesn't sound like the kind of guy that would abide fools.

12-02-2016, 11:36 AM	#3169
photon The new goggles also do nothing. Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Calgary Exp:	A pretty great email response from the incoming secretary of defense commenting about being too busy to read. The problem with being too busy to read is that you learn by experience (or by your men’s experience), i.e. the hard way. By reading, you learn through others’ experiences, generally a better way to do business, especially in our line of work where the consequences of incompetence are so final for young men. Thanks to my reading, I have never been caught flat-footed by any situation, never at a loss for how any problem has been addressed (successfully or unsuccessfully) before. It doesn’t give me all the answers, but it lights what is often a dark path ahead. http://www.businessinsider.com/gener...-viral-2016-11 There's a theory going around that Romney is subjecting himself to the public humiliation he's getting because he actually cares about his country and thinks he'll be in a better position to mitigate Trump if necessary as SoS. Or he could just be craven but I'm picking the former heh. Mattis doesn't sound like the kind of guy that would abide fools. __________________ Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.