As I readied for work this morning,  I heard on NPR’s Morning Edition a review of some of the “Shelf full of books” chronicling any one or several of the many debacles being carried out by the Bush administration.  This one highlights what is the pattern of the administration on EVERYTHING:  the appointment of cronies and cheerleaders,  irregardless of actual experience in the post to which they are being appointed.  In fact,  it seems a policy to appoint noone who actually has practical experience or CARES about the public trust to which they have been assigned;  if they CARED,  they will turn into still yet another whistle blower.

Rajiv Chandrasekaran’s book on the Green Zone shows how those ideological and political battles that were fought in Washington played out in Baghdad. And it reads sort of as a farce because what one sees is utterly unqualified people — people either too young, inexperienced or chosen simply because they were cronies or ideological soul mates of someone in the administration — were put in jobs, for example, to oversee the health system of Iraq and made decisions based more on what they know of the health system of Michigan.

Source: NPR : A Shelf Full of Books Chronicle Iraq Policy, Strategy