Not So Much Of A Mea Culpa From Michael Ignatieff

Citing Isaiah Berlin, Edmund Burke, Samuel Beckett, Immanuel Kant, Machiavelli, Roosevelt, Churchill, Truman and de Gaulle, he suggests sound judgment isn't all that easy. Even big guys make bad judgments. "Bus drivers can display a shrewder grasp of what's what than Nobel Prize winners." Ignatieff invokes Bismarck's observation that political judgment is "the ability to hear, before anyone else, the distant hoofbeats of the horse of history," and adds: "Few of us hear the horses coming." But millions around the world, including Canadians, did on Iraq. Jean Chrétien did. Stephen Harper and Ignatieff didn't. http://www.thestar.com/comment/article/244589

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