The beginning of Alexander Pope’s poem An Essay on Criticism succinctly warns about the danger of such shallow brilliance. Those who have achieved success in some area can succumb to thinking of themselves as being clever at everything. No one can accuse Trump of hiring the best and the brightest. It is not only with respect to the war that we see this in the Trump administration. A measles vaccine is effective, it stops measles in about 97% of the cases.