Politician or bureaucrat

In an article which appeared in Emirates Business, my former Stephanian colleague, Mani Shanker Aiyar, says that "bureaucrats make very poor politicians".

May I disagree and say that "bureaucrats make very dangerous politicians" as would be the example of Matti Ahtisaari, former President of Finland, who bureaucratically engineered his whole political career and after with the grip of a bureaucrat.

Ahtisaari travelled the world at his taxpayers expense, working to one goal. He then weedled his way to a Nobel Prize. He is now scheming to get one of the top European posts, President or Prime Minister.

I say "Beware of a bureaucrat with political ambitions!"