“Ask W. about surprises, why don’t you? He came to Washington with a “realist” foreign policy”
This is 100% incorrect. He came to get rid of Saddam Hussein BEFORE 9/11. He had his agenda to get rid of a guy who wanted to kill his “daddy”. There is no BUTS, or IFs about it. Then you add people like Rumsfeld and few others and then you have a disaster waiting to happen. It is now so clear nano seconds after Afghanistan they could not wait to go to Baghdad. So he knew what he planned and now we are all paying for it.
“Look at the current financial crisis. I don’t think most people, including Nobel Prize winning economists, have more than an educated hunch about the true dimensions of the problems.”
This is 100% wrong too. I consider myself below average IQ, yet in 2005, I knew so well that bad things will hit the fan in matter of few years, AFTER sub prime rates were set to raise the interest rates. I’m no wall street brain and I was lucky to get a C in my Econ 101, yet I knew so clearly this thing is going to be so bad and wild fire will burn so many people.
Now those people (smart, insider and noble potential) that you talked to and PRETENDING not to notice this disaster, they were all in it for themselves, and the higher profile they have the more liars and criminal they are. So please…Give me a break!!! PLEASE! How long can we keep this self-deceiving ignorance? How many more trillions and zillions should be lost that many of the smart people say this loudly: WE F…CKED UP BIG TIME and WE KNOW S..IT. WE PRETEND WE KNOW THINGS, BUT WE KNOW SH..T. If people get to this point, I think there will be hope for us in the future.
As I said weeks ago, Greenspan must be investigated and prosecuted for his INCOMPETENCE and dereliction of duty. IT looks like NY Times now published a story about Greenspan (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/09/business/economy/09greenspan.html?em) that says something close to it, but still they are part of the problem and don’t want to admit their incompetence either.
