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Interesting. So why is this person not shunned from her industry for being partly responsible for a geopolitical disaster?

It's akin to taking business advice from Ken Lay and Jeffrey Skilling.

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Jeff Skilling could probably give some real fantastic advice on business and finance, particularly structured products, operating, etc. That's not to say you'd want to FOLLOW the advice, but it would likely increase your knowledge or insight into something.

His failure was in ethics. THAT might be something you'd not want to look towards him for.

It's very useful to separate the two.

In this instance, an expert's read on a situation is interesting and informative. You just might not want to take his policy recommendation.

The problem is that motivated experts, especially unethical ones, generally feel no compunction about analyzing things in ways biased towards their recommendations. Jeff Skilling would surely describe some frauds to you as just a normal, slightly complicated structured product.

Their "Industry" is selling political agenda and influencing governments for corporate benefit. Seems successful.

> geopolitical disaster

"disasters" are profitable (for those able to benefit from corruption). And enable western/democratic governments to get away with violating their citizens. PATRIOT Act for instance. Read 1984 for background of how "fear of attack" and "security" is used to keep the masses in line.

You seem to be not distinguishing between the effort to start that war and the effort to manage and end it. Specifically, Rumsfield's opposition to her involvement would seem to speak well of her in that regard.

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