Recommended Reading:
This post at Orcinus. This is a key point:
I think a key to understanding this illogic, if such a thing is possible, lies in recognizing that these people conceive of themselves as heroes engaged in a heroic task. Once a person claims that status for himself, at least in his own self-conception, all kinds of obvious contradictions are immediately resolvable, since the blunt force of the hero's moral superiority rub out any such distinctions. They are right no matter what "facts" may argue otherwise.
He's talking about the severely rightwing pundits and wannabes, but take it one step farther: translate that mentality into a foreign policy.
'Nuff said?
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