Take the Test!

Are you authoritarian?

http://www.anesi.com/fscale.htm

Thoughtful Quote

” Six years ago, immediately after the 9/11 attacks, would we have imagined that an open-ended anti-insurgent presence in a country that didn’t attack us would be the proper response?”
—James Fallows

Quote of the Day

“They deem him the worst enemy who tells them the truth”
Plato

Wolfowitz: Architect of Delusion

Paul Wolfowitz, the embattled leader of the World Bank, is one of the main idiots behind our Iraqi Blunder. He persistently has reversed cause and effect. Radical lunatic idiots like him should be removed from any place of power.

http://www.reuters.com/article/bondsNews/idUSN1422387520070414

Magical Thinking or Just Delusional?

I do wonder why it is that so many will resist the evidence of their own observations. Some people, like me, saw the outcome of the blunder in Iraq as likely to be very detrimental to our interests, way before the first shot was fired. Not prognosticating just widely read in geopolitics and military history.

Again the hysteria over Iran or DPRK is adverse to our best interests. The real threats we face are all internal, looting the wealth of entrepreneurs, scientists, engineers, and wage earners by capital pirates. The crappification of our schools. And the growth of a radical sectarian religious movement fueled by the lunacy of its leaders and the credulity of its led.

These are all self created problems whose solution is entirely domestic. This period after WW2 gave us an unprecedented chance to finally make a decent society. We are blowing it by stages, fearful when we should be confident and petty when we should be great.