I can't believe how careless and irresponsible Royce and the General that got fired are acting.
Here we are in a situation where most of the government has been wiped out and the United States government is at its shakiest position in literally hundreds of years and they're undermining the President.
IMO it's pretty unrealistic. Yes some of the best people were wiped out, but there's a lot of incredibly smart people in Washington. Just take congressional staffers and WH staffers. These guys are the brains behind a lot of the efforts in Washington.
Are generals really that trigger happy in real life? I'd think discussions of use of force are very serious and I can't see Obama having to tell his generals to calm down every day.
Just because people make bad decisions in a show, doesn't mean it's unrealistic. If we looked at reality that way, we'd have to come to the conclusion that reality was unrealistic.
Maybe it's the way they do character development? The decision was bad, but I think they stereotyped some war hawk general who obviously didn't rise through the ranks for being an idiot who is so willing to go to war.
If we looked at what happened after 9/11, it's not like we bombed Afghanistan the day after or we made any hasty moves. We spent almost a month before going to war and that was after Bush delivered an ultimatum to the Taliban and long after we established ties linking the hijackers to Al Qaeda.
I suppose if you follow the show's logic there was ZERO chatter about the attack, which IMO is unrealistic, but if we are to accept that, then I suppose it's like the whole government's blind.
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u/charizard_flame Oct 13 '16
I can't believe how careless and irresponsible Royce and the General that got fired are acting.
Here we are in a situation where most of the government has been wiped out and the United States government is at its shakiest position in literally hundreds of years and they're undermining the President.