Today: Blindingly Stupid Policy Produces Bad Results

Who could have predicted it? Taking away resources that could have been used to actually go terrorists that posed a potential threat to American civilians in order to destroy a state that posed no significant security threat to the United States and replace it with an anarchic terrorist haven turns out…to have been bad for American national security! A truly shocking development. But we’re “fighting back,” and that’s what matters! Insisting on a minimally rational relationship between security goals and a military action is the kind of thing you’d only favor if you’re willing to live with a president who had bad socks or earth tone suits or something.