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because it took a particular degree of inattention from a whole host of people under him and advising him. That and the Dark Lord and his PNAC minions put the mind control whammy on his pickled chowderhead.
Charlie Wilson and his CIA cronies in their short sighted attempts to maintain the "balance of power" deserve a large portion of the blame as well as Israel's ham handed policies in re: Palestinians, Lebanon, Syria . . .
Plenty of blame to go around. Maybe if we broke out of the mindset that violence (or threats) solves problems rather than creates them (with rare exception) then maybe we'd stop believing in the phony myth of American exceptionalism and treat people not as children who need enlightening but as humans who've been on the blue ball organized into working societies a whole lot longer than us.
