What shoulda been done isn’t always what needs to be done.
Kinda like the admonishment that we shouldn’t fight yesterday’s battles.
A solution that isn’t engineered well isn’t going to get the job done either. Beams too small or beams too large do not a good bridge make – both could collapse.
I think the advisors to the presidents are bad. Colleges aren’t doing a good job educating people about economics; the free trade experiment wasn’t engineered.
McCain’s troop surge may have been the right idea even if the war was NOT. The war was not won because the price was too high to consider a victory. However, the legacy of a total disaster from an immediate withdrawal, as Obama preached, may have ruined America’s future ability to use military force.
Both Obama and McCain are light weights. So are the present crop of advisors.