PJ Media

I think your premise, intellectual naivete, is wrong. Not to put too cynical a point on it, but I don’t think that premise explains the reality very well. I think the bad outcomes that follow from your premised naivete is intended, planned for, and desired. Otherwise, the administration’s flat line learning curve cannot be explained, unless we are to assume they are congenitally stupid. Example: If the administration is really apposed to “drill baby drill” and America as the “free worlds” police men–(oh sorry, police persons), would they really be interested in stopping the BP gusher on the ocean floor of the Caribbean? Would they really control the borders, if they believed in open borders? Would they really come to an allies assistance (Israel) to control their borders when they will not even control their own borders? If they really believed in settling in on mars, wouldn’t they practice settling in on the moon first (it’s closer and with more margin for learning errors)? And do they really believe in getting beyond race when their politics is so much about race? And do they really believe in ending nuclear weapons on the face of the planet in our time when the NPT is such a failure and Iran is on the cusp of acquiring them? When they tout multiculturalism to the heavens do they really believe in the legitimacy of a minority monocultural Israeli state? But, on the other hand, maybe they’re just being slick, giving the proverbial problem people of the world enough rope to hang themselves, but I think that’s too charitable.