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RULE TWO: ALL POWER TO THE CONSENSUS...
...fact that Johnson wanted a consensus meant two things: great pressure for everyone to agree in order to please him; compromise proposals without priorities. The decision process was largely an effort to find a common denominator everyone could live with rather than the shaping of real recommendations...
Reasons Gelb: "Whoever plays the game within the consensus can get his little piece of the pie. Those who wanted a serious negotiating effort got a bombing pause and sometimes changes in position. Those who wanted more bombing got that. But a lot of these things are contradictory. Why does everybody get his slice? One, because the guy who is handling a piece of the action is thought to know best. Two, because this is the way to preserve the consensus, and that is the summum bonum...
...emerged from the Viet Nam debacle with its honor largely intact was the CIA. Its director in the years of escalation was John McCone, a conservative Republican who believed the U.S. had to try for a knockout blow in Viet Nam or get out. He argued constantly against the consensus policy of gradual escalation...
...debates that enlivened the first three centuries of the Christian era. A series of church councils early condemned two extreme views: 1) the idea that Jesus was merely a man, and 2) the belief that he was a God who only appeared to be in human form. The orthodox consensus, of course, was that he was both truly man and truly God. Beyond that basic tenet, however, different cultures through the ages have invariably given Christ different characterizations. The medieval church saw him as the ideal knight in the spiritual guidebook Ancrene Wisse, and later as Christ the King?...