The Truth About Better Decision-Making (Collection), 2/e

Truth 32. Two heads can be worse than one

How did the U.S. get into the war in Iraq? The best minds of the nation were focused on this topic for weeks. Top leaders made pitches. Journalists wrote stories. Hundreds of members of the U.S. Senate and Congress should have served as a check, but they waved it on. Since the problem was framed as a battle between freedom and terrorism, who wanted to be on the wrong side? Our allies around the world, with a few notable exceptions, either got in line with the "coalition of the willing" or diplomatically kept quiet. Those countries who didn't participate, such as France, were left holding their "freedom fries."

The decision of the United States to invade Iraq was originally justified based on the belief ...