The Importance of Elites in Foreign Policy Disasters

I'm going to take you through them step by step and you can fill in the blanks of anything you want from your book or what you're thinking. I'll just read you back the first one: The Washington elite pays too small a price for foreign policy disasters. And this in turn allows the policy elite to shrug them off and go on just as before unquote. What do you, what are you saying there beyond the obvious? Well, even democracies require elites in any way rule,. Any seriously governed country, there is an elite. In democracy, it can be meritocratic. In autocratic, it could be by connections with the ruler. It's form, elites are the