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Werther's Law: Or Joe Biden and the Iron Law of Adverse Political Selection Digging in, the fascinating writer Werther re-appears at George Kenney's outstanding web site. [excerpt] "Why do politicians make disastrous decisions with the consistency of iron filings obeying a magnet? Decisions that in retrospect (and frequently in prospect) seem doomed to failure? After 9/11 did it make any sense when, after coming close to the point of capturing Osama bin Laden, the U.S. government began pulling troops, materiel, and intelligence assets away from the hunt in order to invade a country which had nothing to do with Osama?" ... Read on at: Electric Politics Werther's Law