"And what it also displays, at interminable length, is the frightening combination of certitude, misjudgment and ignorance that went into the making of decisions. . . . It is not a record of wickedness or criminality; it is rather a record of glibness, illusion and intellectual mediocrity."
The highlighed words made me think first of Kristol's and Wolfowitz's inexcusable ignorance of the nature of Shia/Sunni relations in Iraq and then, more bitingly, Tommy Franks' opinion of Douglas Feith: "the fucking stupidest guy on the face of the earth."
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