1 Boring Old Man

It’s amazing how persistently human beings hold on to their ideas. It proves that old saying, "Insanity is trying the same thing over and over, expecting different results." There are lots of forces behind our current foreign policy, but one big force has been the pseudo-scholars at the American Enterprise Institute who have been arguing for years that Terrorism is State sponsored, rather that Terrorist sponsored. The two lead prophets of this set of ideas are Michael Ledeen and Laurie Mylroie. And they’re still at it. They were both big influences on the A.E.I. people that Bush imported into his top eschelon:

• Saddam’s WMD’s: The Syrian Connection by Laurie Mylroie
• Conservative scholar calls for destruction of ‘terror masters’ Michael Ledeen’s speech at Princeton

Ledeen wants us to go to war with Iran, Syria, and Saudi Arabia. Mylroie is currently focused on Syria, but she’ll do Iran at the drop of a hat. Mylroie, daughter of Holocaust victims, came by being an alarmist honestly, but she’s such a monomaniacal Conspiracy Theorist [she thinks Timothy McVeigh was working with Islamic Terrorists] that she’s lost all perspective, if she ever had any. Ledeen, also influenced personally by the horror of the Holocaust, set out to understand Hitler, but instead of seeing the flaws, he fell in love with fascism [the Italian version] He particularly loves Machiavelli. Libby was one of Mylroie’s biggest fans. Rove says that Iran-Contra broker, Ledeen, is his foreign policy advisor. The Project for the New American Century was founded on their ideas. And the Bush Doctrine put their ideas to the test. It failed the test! Got an F-. But they’re still saying it, thinking that they’re great heros, crying out in the wilderness, carriers of the great truth, and that the rest of us have cloudy vision. Their obsession with Feudalism has been a tremendously destructive force in American and World Politics…

de·lu·sion  (d-lzhn)
n.

Psychiatry. A false belief strongly held in spite of invalidating evidence, especially as a symptom of mental illness: delusions of persecution.