re: "Democrats’ New Intelligence Chairman Flunks Intel Quiz"

Blogs of War encapsulates the little mantra that I use to sustain myself when "Higher" makes incomprehensible decisions clearly not in our own self-interests:

"You know it’s just never safe to assume that authority figures actually know what they’re doing or that their access to confidential information is an explanation for seemingly stupid strategic decision making. They must know something that we don’t right?"