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Article: An administration that thinks and acts as a child Analyze this
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- International Herald Tribune
- Article date:
- September 17, 2003
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Troubled teenagers fail at the tasks of a modern adolescence because
they try to solve sophisticated problems with an unsophisticated approach
whose elements routinely include a childish sense of time, lack of
empathy, florid narcissism, selfish ethics and concrete logic. They
are usually not stupid, nor ill ã not the kids I'm talking about.
But they fail across the board ã at school, at home and among their
peers ã because their approach is childish.I point this out because
I want to talk about adults, and specifically about the Bush administration
and its ''approach.'' Temporarily (under stress) or chronically (for
those who never grew up), adults can ...