Denial is not a river in Egypt

Once again denial rears its ugly head.

"The decision to remain blind runs up and down the line, from the halls of power that shape policy toward the US’s “ally” Pakistan, down to the lowest analysts and assistant regional security officers in Islamabad, who turned away Outalha. This isn’t failure, this is systematic shortsightedness. America is in a complete state of denial."- Seth J. Frantzman, The Jerusalem Post 10/26/10

Denial is a psychological problem.  It has ingratiated itself into the highest levels of society, according to this.  If our leadership is infected with this disease, then they have to go.  They have lost the capacity to lead.  One of the findings of the 911 commission which was published in 2004 was that there was a lack of imagination.  If the lack of imagination is the tendency not to be able to think outside the box, could that be just another form of denial?  A lack of imagination is a type of mental blindness.  One afflicted in thus a manner cannot see what is there and what isn't, nor can a possible solution to problems be found.   They cannot be found if they cannot be seen.  Even the problems themselves cannot be seen.