Though the National Transportation Safety Board has just begun investigating the mid-air collision over DC last Wednesday that killed 67 people, we already know the cause: wishful thinking.
Elected officials demand the impossible when it suits them. In this case, the problem wasn’t too little faith in supposedly sclerotic, inept government agencies, but too much.
The Washington elite put blind faith in the idea that things would all work out, somehow, even though they were putting themselves in mortal danger.