Your example doesn&#x27;t really make any sense.<p>This wasn&#x27;t about cheating - this was about war leaders making decisions during times of war or conflict (or what they believed was war).<p>As a President (or political leader) you will need to make hard decisions.<p>And you are <i>guaranteed</i> to annoy some sub-section of the population by your decisions.<p>And like it or not, conflict (or war) is a part of our world - and as a leader, you need to make tough calls.<p>We can dissect those decisions afterwards - and offer our own commentary. But I am not arrogant enough to think that I would make a better President or political leader - I don&#x27;t have the stomach for those sorts of decisions, or a thick enough skin.<p>My question to you - do you think you could make better calls in each of those cases?<p>Personal opinion - I didn&#x27;t agree with a lot of Bush Jr&#x27;s decisions. However, I think he did the best with the information and advice he had. Whilst some people may not like him, I don&#x27;t think anybody has actually ever accused him of being outright deceptive, or misleading? (Stupid, perhaps, but he was anything if not earnest).<p>Another thing - often on HN, we don&#x27;t understand that we aren&#x27;t really the majority - we&#x27;re in our own little echo chamber here (for better or worse).<p>Most of us are fairly affluent, technologically advanced - and let&#x27;s face it, out of touch with the average person.<p>And some of us are also part of the tin-foil hat crowd =).<p>Take the Snowden leaks - a lot of us are up in arms about the invasion of liberties (and possibly for good reason).<p>But for many average people, Snowden is nothing more than an American traitor - and the fact that we&#x27;re spying on other nations? &quot;Gee, I thought that&#x27;s what our government was <i>meant</i> to do?&quot;. A lot of the people outside of tech don&#x27;t really care that much about the invasion of privacy - they are so far removed from that sort of thing that it doesn&#x27;t really impact them (or so they think).