There's No Czar in US Politics (the beginning of a series)

"How has Bremer reached his advanced age without realizing that the cossacks work for the czar, not for themselves?"

Although this is fun to personalise the problem on Bush, in fact the difficulty is with a political system where small organised groups can so strongly influence decision-making and impose externalities on the rest of the country. It's not Bush that's the problem, the problem is a political system which persistently generates incentives (from oil and Israel lobbies) to take advice from those who advocate a colonial approach for US policy towards the Middle East.

There's no Czar in US politics. Or rather, the Czar works for the interest groups. At your advanced age, you should know that.

I like the phrase "There's no Czar in US politics" so I'm going to start a series about this.