Another Feith based initiative.

[Dr.Phool]

These people really are crazier than we ever gave them credit for. Douglas Feith ALMOST makes Rumsfeld look sane.

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/008424.php

(May 11, 2006 -- 01:59 PM EDT)

There's a pretty high bar on news that makes former Undersecretary of Defense Doug Feith look like an even bigger jackass.

But this may meet the standard. According to this Periscope report in Newsweek, just after 9/11, as administration officials were debating where to launch the war on terror, Feith came up with an idea that showed he was really thinking outside the box.

The first attacks, he apparently wrote, should come in South America. Such attacks would have the advantage of being "a surprise to the terrorists."

Feith and his advisors "argued that an attack on terrorists in South America -- for example, a remote region on the border of Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil where intelligence reports said Iranian-backed Hizbullah had a presence -- would have ripple effects on other terrorist operations."

I don't usually find much common ground with Feith. But I think he's right that such an attack would have come as quite a surprise to the terrorists. But why stop there? They probably would have been even more dumbfounded if we'd blown up one of our ships in our initial round of retaliation, or perhaps bombed Portugal.

All jokes aside, consider that this fool was a key architect of our policies in fighting terrorism.


-- Josh Marshall

[Cooley Hurd]

1. I think the term "scary-stupid" applies here...

:crazy:

[Dr.Phool]

2. And they were just talking about him on Democracy Now! today.

The faculty at Georgetown is outraged that he was appointed as a visiting professor.

[Arkham House]

3. I almost soiled myself just now laughing at this...

...my God. MY GOD!!! What kind of *&^%$%^&*&^%$#$*&^%^&$##% have been running this country, anyway? We have a "government" consisting of Monty Python, Catch-22, The Wizard of Oz, and the psych ward at Bellevue...how is it possible to laugh and shiver at the same time...?

[tech3149]

4. After all Feith has been called the dumbest guy in Washington

That's no small feat!

[Ms. Clio]

5. to be more precise:"the fucking stupidest guy on the face of the earth."

According to General Tommy Franks.

[Roland99]

6. Why not? The pro-US puppets were starting to lose their stranglehold

Look at the leftist moves in Latin America.

And, the neocons couldn't give up their control of precious water rights and the ability to rape natural resources either.