{"id":177,"date":"2006-02-18T09:01:48","date_gmt":"2006-02-18T14:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2006\/02\/18\/still-crazy-after-all-these-years\/"},"modified":"2006-02-18T09:40:42","modified_gmt":"2006-02-18T14:40:42","slug":"still-crazy-after-all-these-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2006\/02\/18\/still-crazy-after-all-these-years\/","title":{"rendered":"still crazy after all these years&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"justify\">It&#8217;s amazing how persistently human beings hold on to their ideas. It proves that old saying, &quot;Insanity is trying the same thing over and over, expecting different results.&quot; There are lots of forces behind our current foreign policy, but one big force has been the pseudo-scholars at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aei.org\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>American Enterprise Institute<\/strong><\/a> 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 <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Michael_Ledeen\" target=\"_self\"><strong>Michael Ledeen<\/strong><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonmonthly.com\/features\/2003\/0312.bergen.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Laurie Mylroie<\/strong><\/a>. And they&#8217;re still at it. They were both big influences on the <strong>A.E.I.<\/strong> people that Bush imported into his top eschelon:<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/Articles\/Printable.asp?ID=21209\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Front Page Magazine\"><strong>Saddam&#8217;s WMD&#8217;s: The Syrian Connection<\/strong><\/a> by Laurie Mylroie<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zwire.com\/site\/news.cfm?newsid=16142557&#038;BRD=1091&#038;PAG=461&#038;dept_id=425695&#038;rfi=6\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"The Princeton Packet\"><strong> Conservative scholar calls for destruction of &#8216;terror masters&#8217;<\/strong><\/a> Michael Ledeen&#8217;s speech at Princeton<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"51\" vspace=\"2\" hspace=\"7\" height=\"69\" border=\"1\" align=\"left\" title=\"Michael Ledeen\" alt=\"Michael Ledeen\" src=\"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/images\/ledeen.gif\" \/>Ledeen wants us to go to war with Iran, Syria, and Saudi Arabia. Mylroie is currently focused on Syria, but she&#8217;ll do Iran at the drop of a hat. Mylroie, daughter of Holocaust victims, came by being an alarmist honestly, but she&#8217;s such a monomaniacal Conspiracy Theorist [she thinks Timothy McVeigh was working with Islamic Terrorists] that she&#8217;s lost all perspective, if she ever had any. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"51\" vspace=\"2\" hspace=\"7\" height=\"69\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" title=\"Laurie Mylroie\" alt=\"Laurie Mylroie\" src=\"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/images\/mylroie.gif\" \/>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&#8217;s biggest fans. Rove says that Iran-Contra broker, Ledeen, is his foreign policy advisor. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www,newamericancentury.org\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Project for the New American Century<\/strong><\/a> was founded on their ideas.  And the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bush_doctrine\" target=\"_blank\">Bush Doctrine<\/a><\/strong> put their ideas to the test. <strong>It failed the test!<\/strong> Got an F-. But they&#8217;re still saying it, thinking that they&#8217;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&#8230;  <\/div>\n<p align=\"justify\">It&#8217;s amazing how persistently human beings hold on to their ideas. <\/p>\n<hr size=\"1\" \/>\n<div align=\"justify\"><strong>de&middot;lu&middot;sion<\/strong>&nbsp; (d<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"7\" height=\"15\" border=\"0\" align=\"bottom\" src=\"http:\/\/cache.lexico.com\/dictionary\/graphics\/AHD4\/GIF\/ibreve.gif\" alt=\"\" \/>-l<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"13\" height=\"14\" border=\"0\" align=\"bottom\" src=\"http:\/\/cache.lexico.com\/dictionary\/graphics\/AHD4\/GIF\/oomacr.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"4\" height=\"22\" border=\"0\" align=\"bottom\" src=\"http:\/\/cache.lexico.com\/dictionary\/graphics\/AHD4\/GIF\/prime.gif\" alt=\"\" \/>zh<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"6\" height=\"15\" border=\"0\" align=\"bottom\" src=\"http:\/\/cache.lexico.com\/dictionary\/graphics\/AHD4\/GIF\/schwa.gif\" alt=\"\" \/>n)<br \/>    <em>n.<\/em><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><u><em>Psychiatry.<\/em><\/u> A false belief strongly held in spite of invalidating evidence, especially as a symptom of mental illness: delusions of persecution.<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p> <span class=\"small\">The American Heritage&reg; Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition<br \/>  Copyright &copy; 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.<\/span>   <em> <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s amazing how persistently human beings hold on to their ideas. It proves that old saying, &quot;Insanity is trying the same thing over and over, expecting different results.&quot; 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}