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Todd J. Barry
Abstract: Leadership is, at times, the calling out and identification of lack of leadership. This paper uses a case study to propose an original idea, that of policy by tautologies in the George W. Bush administration and the international community. A tautology is a type of circular group reasoning. While President Bush emphasized the policy of “regime change” to his advisors, the advisors came to repeat the phrase back to him …