"This notion that the United States is getting ready to attack Iran is simply ridiculous."
(Short pause)
"And having said that, all options are on the table."
Even the White House stenographers felt obliged to note the result: laughter.
But Bush administration policy toward the Middle East is being run by men - yes, only men - who were routinely referred to in high circles in Washington during the 1980s as the "crazies". I can attest to that personally, but one need not take my word for it.
It can get worse
"The crazies" are not finished. And we do well not to let their ultimate folly obscure their current ambition, and the further trouble that ambition is bound to bring in the four years ahead. In an immediate sense, with US military power unrivaled, they can be seen as "crazy like a fox", with a value system in which "might makes right".
Operating out of that value system, and now sporting the more respectable misnomer/moniker neo-conservative, they are convinced that they know exactly what they are doing. They have a clear ideology and a geopolitical strategy, which leap from papers they have put out at the Project for the New American Century in recent years.
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