More Tales From Opposite World

We were told that the grown-ups were in charge. They had experience. They had the know-how. They were intelligent. They were clever. We have been spoon-fed this political ipecac syrup for years now, even as evidence mounted that the exact opposite was the case - that in fact the foreign policy "team" Pres. Bush put together was among the most ideologically-driven, practically inept group ever assembled. The fact that Iran-Contra criminal Elliot Abrams had his career rehabilitated should have been a clue that we had descended beyond mere incompetence to criminally negligent.

A nice counter to the nice-nice "oh-aren't-they-clever" nonsense still foisted upon us by insipid journalists, are the comments of Josh Marshall:

It's a screwup that staggers the mind.

and Robert Farley (h/t, Duncan):

Morons. We have morons on our team.

The references are to revelations today that the entire policy-making apparatus, in regards to North Korea's nuclear program was based upon false premises, and actually encouraged and strengthened the Hermit Kingdom's ability to develop and build nuclear weapons. The reason the assumptions were wrong? Why, because they were the opposite of Bill Clinton's, and of course Bush had to make sure he did the opposite of Clinton to appease the idiots in his base.

So, Clinton was a failure for containing Iraq and North Korea, but Bush is a strong leader for leading us into the stupid, pointless, losing occupation of Iraq; and now, Kim Jong-il has nuclear weapons, even though Clinton had hammered out a tough agreement with them that kept them from working on them for eight years.

Please, for the sake of my feeble brain, name one thing this gang of idiots ensconced in offices in Washington have done right since January 20, 2001. These people are like the anti-Midas, turning everything they touch into the most foul ordure rather than the purest gold. They have destroyed the military; they have bankrupted the country; they have not pursued those who actually perpetrated acts of terror against the United States; they neglect returning vets, cardboard cutouts of whom they claim to support; they lie, lie about lying, deny knowing anything about the lying about lying - and are certainly among the most morally bereft political Administration's in American history, along with Ronald Reagan's, Warren Harding's, and Ulysses Grant's (strangely, all Republican). Is there any reason any Republican running for office should not be automatically disqualified from holding public office?

January 20, 2009 cannot come soon enough!

UPDATE: This post by Tristero at Hullabaloo, beyond making the now-mundane observation that such important information is currently below the radar of our media elites, is just another piece of evidence in the huge moral/political/historical/and one would hope someday soon, legal, case against the Bush Administration. We are going to end terrorism as we know it by declaring war on it! By invading Iraq, however, which the Pres. and V-P still defend as central to the whole War on Terror thing, we have actually increased both the number of and ferocity of terrorist attacks, in ways that are actually quantifiable.

It's like someone asked the question, "What would happen if we elected the worst administration ever?" and then put it in to practice.