Groupthink!

I think that they should just ditch Friedman and keep Ehrenreich, or at least keep her on.  Her latest column deals with the prevalence if "groupthink" and how in many ways it can be particularly dangerous.  I think this line is just great:
 
 

"...while the capacity for groupthink is an endearing part of our legacy as social animals, it's also a common precondition for self-destruction. One thousand coalition soldiers have died because the C.I.A. was so eager to go along with the emperor's delusion that he was actually wearing clothes."