(Eyes bulging out of head): "Stimpy! You EEEEEEDIOT!"

Had to get that out.

'Best and Brightest' also covered the fallout during the 50's, the ripple effects, throughout our foreign relations and security actions, including from Mao's turning China Red. The GOP was all over the Dems for losing a country to communism on its watch, and cleaned house of knowledgable State staffers, which lead to bad assessments and decisions later.

The point? Consequences of bad decisions, when bad enough, can have repercussions for a decade. Or more.

Bush jumped into Iraq knowing it was supposed to be easy pickings militarily. His mistake was not having a clue on how to effectively cover the contingency we are facing there right now. Which raises the question of what plans he did have developed before he went in (Remember, he's only been in office two years when he pulled the trigger. How much of that two years did he dedicate to planning details of our military being that country's security after we knock out Saddam, for even as much as three years, with what insurgents there are up to. Did he foresee the fragility of the cooperation among the three main factions there, even while we are there in force?

Bush either went in with NO idea of what he was getting into, OR he did a terrific plan and everything right now is exactly as he wants it and he chose for it to be this way, OR a combination of the two.

So, was he an idiot cowboy nobly charging in while also not having a clue on what he was getting into? Or was he deliberately taking too high a risk on too speculative an outcome, and if he craps out, you can figure at least some of the bad fallout such a lost bet would have on our foreign relations and security now. Or, was he a combination of the two? And if this blows up, will we be in deep doodoo (thanks GHWB) for only 10 years in the middle east, or will it instead be 20 years? Will you be so proud of GWB when history puts him right next to Carter over Iraq going theocratic?

Yeah, I want the leader of the free world and safekeeper of our security to be reckless.

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