Hmmm. Maybe firing all of them might have been a mistake.

[mburbank]

While I appreciatte your excellent example of what a devil's advocate would do if they were doing it well, I think in this case you miss the point of the post.

which is:

Bremmer made a sweeping, all inclusive judgement. That judgement (like almost any that's sweeping and all inlusive) worked out badly. Now he wishes to make an adjustment to it, which I actually think is good. What I'm complainig about is
A.) That he even needed to make the first step (in a sweeping nature which anyone could have told you wouldn't work) and B.) That having done so he excercises the Bush Behavior Code of insisiting that his original action was flawless and that it only needs to be adjusted because other people screwed it up and the fact that he only just now noticed is not his fault as administrator, and that everything is going to plan and these are just planned for adjustments to fix things that didn't go wrong with plan that wasn't flawed.