‘A Grand Harmonic Convergence of Wingnuttery’
May 31st, 2007 at 1:11 pm by Susie
Duncan on why we’re in Iraq.
If I could just add a little something to this truly awesome summation, it would be this.
The one thing these players do all have in common is that they appear to be, for lack of a better word, brats.
They have a very low tolerance for frustration of any kind. They are darling, pampered boys (mostly boys - let’s not forget wacky Laurie Mylroie and Judy Miller) who have been told from a young age that they were special, and better than the rest. They’re smarter, they know better and they want their way.
But like many smart people, they live in a rhetorical vacuum. They think very grand, intellectual thoughts, but since they never actually had to test those ideas against results in what those of us less gifted and cushioned might call, um, the “real world,” they became convinced as time went by that they Must Be Right. About everything.
You can imagine how hard it is for these very special people - who have, for so long, convinced themselves how very insightful they are - to let go of the idea. It is not their very ideas that are flawed. It is, as always, merely a matter of poor execution.
And so it goes.
