{"id":1378,"date":"2010-12-30T00:32:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-30T00:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/30\/indecision-points\/"},"modified":"2010-12-30T00:32:00","modified_gmt":"2010-12-30T00:32:00","slug":"indecision-points","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/30\/indecision-points\/","title":{"rendered":"Indecision Points"},"content":{"rendered":"
[This made me very, very angry, which was OK since I was stuck in airport hell and needed somewhere to focus my anger. It’s also laugh-out-loud funny. -egg]<\/div>\n
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Indecision Points<\/a>: “<\/p>\n

The London Review of Books<\/em> checks out President G.W. Bush’s memoir, Decision Points<\/em>:<\/p>\n

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Occasionally, someone on Team DP will insert a lyrical phrase – the tears on the begrimed faces of the 9\/11 relief workers ‘cutting a path through the soot like rivulets through a desert’ – but most of the prose sounds like this:<\/p>\n

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‘I told Margaret and Deputy Chief of Staff Josh Bolten that I considered this a far-reaching decision. I laid out a process for making it. I would clarify my guiding principles, listen to experts on all sides of the debate, reach a tentative conclusion, and run it past knowledgeable people. After finalising a decision, I would explain it to the American people. Finally, I would set up a process to ensure that my policy was implemented.’<\/em><\/div>\n

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There are nearly 500 pages of this…<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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A spot of Foucauldian analysis follows of Team DP<\/em>, that being the authorial voice in both print and presidency: ‘There are no decision points in Decision Points<\/em>… [instead] a space into which the writing subject constantly disappears.’<\/p>\n

‘Damn right,’ I said<\/a> [LRB via Metafilter<\/a>]<\/p>\n

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