Who Do We Choose To Be?

Cognitive Dissonance and Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMDs)

In July 2016, a comprehensive report was issued about Britain’s decision to join the United States in war against Iraq. Tony Blair was Britain’s prime minister. The Chilcot report, named after the chairman of the inquiry, Sir John Chilcot, is a damning description of poor and hasty decision making, blunt ego posturing, and retrospective justification for decisions.²² All of these are common in leadership, but the consequences are the world we now live in: over 100,000 Iraqi civilians killed, more displaced as refugees, the rise of ISIS and global terrorism, and the wars now raging in the Middle East including Iraq, those wars driving millions to flee and creating Europe’s refugee crisis. ...