Some few years ago, President Bush hired one of the leading experts in the world on Russian affairs to be his Secretary of State (she was rebounding after a troubled job running a war in the middle east). At the same time, he took a trip and spent some time with a former KGB officer turned President of Russia, where George Bush was able to look his counter part in the eye and delve deep into his soul and find a man he could understand.
He thought he had found a man that he could trust, but instead he apparently didn't realize that he had found a man that would invade a country under false pretenses, justify the invasion with propaganda and then drive up the price of oil as a result of the turmoil generated from the invasion.
In fact, President Bush did see into the soul of Vladimir Putin, he did see a man that he could relate to, and in fact he found a man just like himself. The only thing is that he never had a good read on himself either. Its no wonder that George W Bush did so poorly in banking. I guess we can only be thankful that he did not go into futures trading and eventually become the head of the Federal Reserve, possibly the one other position besides President of the United States where he could actually do even more damage through incompetence.
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