Paul Krugman: The Price of Fantasy

According to Colin Powell, the NeoCons are known far and wide as the 'effing crazies.'

Why is Junior such and idiot?

It is said that he came into the W.H. as the unClinton.

Maybe.

But he is also the un-George Bush I.

Rozius: Paul Krugman: The Price of Fantasy:

Today we call them neoconservatives, but when the first George Bush was president, those who believed that America could remake the world to its liking with a series of splendid little wars, people like Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, were known within the administration as 'the crazies.' Grown-ups in both parties rejected their vision as a dangerous fantasy.

But in 2000 the Supreme Court delivered the White House to a man who, although he may be 60, doesn't act like a grown-up. The second President Bush obviously confuses swagger with strength, and prefers tough talkers like the crazies to people who actually think things through. He got the chance to implement the crazies, vision after 9/11, which created a climate in which few people in Congress or the news media dared to ask hard questions. And the result is the bloody mess we're now in.

This isn't a case of 20-20 hindsight. It was clear from the beginning that the United States didn't have remotely enough troops to carry out the crazies' agenda, and Mr. Bush never asked for a bigger army.