tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2807403883562053852.post5965838893201796093..comments2024-03-27T08:40:31.785-06:00Comments on Clayton Cramer.: The Good NewsClayton Cramerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03258083387204776812noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2807403883562053852.post-18878031014180003502019-03-24T09:54:21.071-06:002019-03-24T09:54:21.071-06:00Mohammed Atta's visa was renewed 6 months afte...Mohammed Atta's visa was renewed 6 months after 9/11.<br /><br />How reassuring.<br /><br />I am reminded of Theodore Dalrymple's essay, <a href="https://www.city-journal.org/html/uses-corruption-12180.html" rel="nofollow"> <br />"The Uses of Corruption.</a><br /><br /><i>Where administration is light and bureaucracy small, bureaucratic honesty is an incomparable virtue; but where these are heavy and large, as in all modern European states, Britain and Italy not least among them, they burden and obstruct the inventive and energetic. Where bureaucrats are honest, no one can cut through their Laocoönian coils: their procedures, no matter how onerous, antiquated, or bloody-minded, must be endured patiently. Such bureaucrats can<br /><br />neither be hurried in their deliberations nor made to see common sense. Indeed, the very absurdity or pedantry of these deliberations is for them the guarantee of their own fair-mindedness, impartiality, and disinterest. To treat all people with equal contempt and indifference is the bureaucrat’s idea of equity.</i><br />Michael Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18127450762129879267noreply@blogger.com