Reply #67: My theory confirmed! [View All]

[rocktivity]

From The Light Of Reason:

...Bush does not decide what is the best action to take based on the available evidence and then determining what is best in terms of our own interests. No, he views such decisions through the prism of how they might be judged by our enemies...

This is the psychology of a man whose self-esteem is tied to his belief that he is always right in every decision—-not that his method is correct, which is where a man of genuine self-esteem will ground his self-worth (since all of us will make errors, and it is only when our method is correct that we will eventually discover them), but that he is right in each specific decision he makes. For such a man, to admit that the invasion and occupation of Iraq was a disastrous and calamitous error would be an admission that he himself is a failure.

...There is only one possible healthy reaction to this state of affairs: you should be very, very afraid. I certainly am.

:scared:
rocknation