Cycloptichorn wrote:
It's not like we didn't know Saddam was bad when we sold him weapons and chemicals in the 80's.... many of the 'most experienced, smartest, shrewdest' leaders that you point to were proponents of Saddam just 20 years ago, WHILE he was gassing and killing all the people that we now condemn him for.
The picture highlights the inconsistencies in what your ' most experienced, smartest, shrewdest' leaders have done over the years.
Cycloptichorn
The kinds of contradictory policies you mention got us through the cold war without any sort of a nuclear holocaust. Any process like that leaves mess and debris to be picked up later, which is what the present administration is doing. This is after an eight year leave of absence from the world stage, during which the American presidency was hijacked by a collection of psychopaths headed by a narciissistic Don Giovanni wannabee, and nothing got done.
The basic reality is that four years has not been quite sufficient to repair the damage; another four should be.
Also in the area of basic realities, we've ultimately got to either get rid of the democrat party or relegate it to some third-party obscurity, or split the country up.
