Government CEO

Briefly yesterday I was tuned into a radio host (I think it was Jim Quinn) in the midst of a solioqy about the ineffectiveness of governmental management. He rattled off a long list of big-government failures (and a few small-government failures), from public schools to the post office to the Department of Energy, and concluded by asking (supposedly rhetorically) "Name one thing the government has managed successfully!"

Although I was in sympathy with his argument, I nonetheless came up with something right away -- "World War II."

Which then led me to thinking -- if the only thing government can do right is manage a war (and then, not always with equal degrees of success), why is that the one thing that left-wingers don't want them to manage?

Not exactly the deepest thought I've ever had, but it kept my brain occupied for a few seconds.