Revenge got in your way. Fear, the only factor you considered. And you disobeyed the fundamentals of analysis. The first rule of finding answers: “If a thing does not exist where it is more likely to exist, it will not exist where it is less likely to exist.” It is a fundamental of logic and rhetoric taught in liberal education for centuries. Apparently no longer found in our over educated, K-Street Cowboys.

But maybe it was that the UN was doing the work. Perhaps its UN hatred that got us into the Iraq Trap. Recall that the UN inspectors said that nothing was found. It didn’t exist where it was most likely to exist. It wasn’t where it had been. It wasn’t where the CIA said it would be. So what made us think it was where the commissioned spies said it must be somewhere. Somewhere over the rainbow, somewhere they couldn’t tell.

Can you trust those leaders who can’t admit error, any more than you can trust those you can’t believe?

Just suppose that your enemy is thousands of miles away. Has the most advanced weapons. Weapons of bullets, bombs and even more important, government issued bonds. All the world sends this distant enemy, all its best. The best minds, manners, and even more important, money.
This remote enemy is the elephant of the world. It sits surrounded by protectors. It considers itself the goal of life and thinks that all those people “out there” want only to “come here to live in glory.” And for the most part, the grass is very green in the elephant country.
So how do you attack an elephant. How do you breach the impenetrable fortress, how do you counter his bullets and breach his boundary? How can a mouse kill an elephant?
Trap him.
How can a small group capture a very much larger group? How can you do battle against superior forces? America didn’t capture England. Vietnam didn’t capture America. Knowing the difference between capture and combat is only a plank on the bridge.

he was always bringing in his past, since as even the children of the 20th know, and certainly would say “if at all possible” that it was “kinda impossible to bring in the future.”