I was picking on this stuff up when it was happening and I was still in HIGH SCHOOL!  I think many intelligent people knew what was going on, knew they were being deceived and went along with it anyway because everyone felt so vulnerable after 9-11.  I remember talking with friends and family, having so many people tell me things like "Hey, it might not be for the right reasons, but we need to show these guys that we are tough".  None of connections between the PNAC and present policy are hard to see.  I think many people don't want to believe it, because that would mean admitting that they were duped by fools.  Nobody wants to take that blow to the ego.  That's where you get smart people like Jim Webb buying into the theory that we could have won in Vietnam if we would have just tried harder.

by funkyspoon on 06/20/2008 01:23:29 AM EST

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