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The unfolding catastrophe in Iraq has condemned the political judgment of a president. But it has also condemned the judgment of many others, myself included, who as one of the commentators, supported the invasion. Many of us believed, as an Iraqi exile friend told me the night the war started, that it was the only chance the members of his generation would have to live in freedom in their own country. How distant a dream that now seems!

I’ve learned that good judgement in politics looks different from good judgement in intellectual life. Among intellectuals, judgement is about generalising and interpreting particular facts as instances of some big idea. In politics, everything is what it is and not another thing. Specifics matter more than generalities. The attribute that underpins good judgment in politicians is a sense of reality. They must not confuse the world as it is with the world as they wish it to be. They must seeIraq – or anywhere else – as it is.

I’ve have learnt that a sense of reality doesn’t always flourish in elite institutions. It is the street virtue par excellence. The only way any of us can improve our grasp of reality is to confront the world every day and learn, mostly from our mistakes, what works & what doesn’t. Yet even lengthy experience can fail us in life and in politics. Experience can imprison decision-makers in worn-out solutions while blinding them to the untried remedy that does the trick. The vital judgments a politician makes every day are about people: whom to trust, whom to believe & whom to avoid. The question of loyalty arises daily: Who will betray & who will stay true? Having a sense of good judgment in these matters & having a sound sense of reality, requires trusting some very unscientific intuition about people.

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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2007

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