Do you think it is remotely possible that our leaders thought of this?
Ever read Tom Clancy? Our guys may not be Jack, John and Ding, but I strongly suspect they are not idiots.
When someone I KNOW knows more than I do does something that I think is really boneheaded, I have learned from experience that they were almost always acting on knowledge that, had I known it, would have caused the same decision by me.
At this point? No, I think it's pretty clear that they have no freaking idea what they are doing. We fight a global war against terrorists on the one hand and give them whole new countries on the other.
The record shows... that Bush & Co. are a bunch of bumblers whose only solution to any problem is to throw immense amounts of taxpayer dollars at it. And that's the charitable interpretation.
Yes my son, drink the kool-aid, it’s goooood for you.
Uhuh, fine. Yes I read Tom Clancy, but I also read real world analysis. And are you telling me we never f’d up like idiots ? Would this have been your reasoning after Bay of Pings, Vietnam retreat, Iran hostage crisis, and a number of other screwups ?
Real crises in the world are borne of being wrong how much it really matters to the other guy. And then you’re all of a sudden locked in a course you cannot change. I believe we’re seeing a things play out that have been set in motion in ‘91, and that our ‘smart guys’ are misreading Russian resolve on this issue.