JG He couldn't find the means to persuade the Americans to do things differently or to speed up the things that were going wrong.
q;Even though he had the ear of the president
JG:Well he did say these things but what can you do at that point but keep going, but I don't think he wanted to analyse fully in his own mind the consequences of these not being going right. there was a certain ammount in all of us, we were all part of a team, of surely this has got to go right at some point.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.