I’ve been browsing through the latest issue of Chronicles, a magazine that is refreshingly sane in its response to the madness of the world. I particularly enjoyed this wonderful summary of the naivete of US foreign policy:

 

“To be plain, the masters of the universe simply don’t know what they are doing. Despite their pretensions to intelligence and education, they tend to be hopelessly ignorant of the world outside the Beltway bubble; filled with hubris; arrogant, shallow, and irredeemably provincial – even naive – in their childlike, vulgar manner and in their unshakable belief not only that Iraqis, Afghans, and Libyans want to be like “us”, but that the American Empire can achieve the dystopian goal of converting vastly alien peoples into soulless and banal yuppies.”