Smart people of good will, given enough money and power, will be able to hit the mark, creating programs that will alleviate the misery and error that have dogged human beings (most visciously via racism, imperialism, sexism, etc.) throughout history.

One of those “smart people” was George W. Bush, who grew the US federal government faster and larger than any of his predecessors dreamed by creating a program to alleviate the misery of the Iraqi people, a program to change their system into a democracy and discard the dictatorship that has dogged the Iraqi people throughout their history. This government program was not unlike the one created by Lyndon Johnson where Americans were sent overseas to die not for US interests but for the South Vietnamese.