17th June 2010, 10:22 PM
But they weren't idiots. Wolfowitz, Rumsfeld, and Cheney -- the neocon core of the administration -- are pretty intelligent men, actually. Horrible people, and with big blind spots in their vision, but very intelligent. Bush? Yeah, he's not too bright. But he was not usually the main leader in his own administration. The neocons had a plan, and carried it out. They did not go in haphazardly or for no good reason.