Judgement comes from experience and experience comes from failure.

While Hillary and others are condemned for her ‘judgement’ in voting for the Iraqi War Resolution, this experience, which she confessed with regret, is more valuable that always being right on every vote.

Not that I am disagreeing with the vote, but Hillary’s experience casting a vote she now regrets will make her more cautious in the future when public paranoia and a fever for revenge fuels a call for action that may be irrevsersible.

Our mistakes in Viet Nam led to our victories in Dessert Storm, the liberation of Kuwait. It made our military cautious almost to a fault (in some opinions).

In the world of business we relish our mistakes and learn from them. In politics one bad vote is enough to get ejected from office. It leads to repetition of mistakes.

The president will experience errors and calamitous results beyond his control. Not taking action (Hitler, Rwanda) can have as grave a result as taking the wrong action. How the president handles mistakes, setbacks, and uncontrollable events is more important than his assurance that his superior judgement will avoid such events.

That is why experience is important.

HKO

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