Now seriously, just like the establishment blamed the defeat in Vietnam on public opinion instead of the fundamentally misguided imperialism behind it, the neocons turned on the parts of the CIA and the State department which opposed them and purged them. The US foreign policy is now effectively a blind, mute and lobotomized brute. Blind because its problems with human intelligence gathering have not been solved, and have possibly been made worse by the animosity that americans agents are likely to encounter in the muslim world. Mute, because having Condi Rice and Bolton where Albright or Powell used to be amounts to having no diplomacy. Lobotomized because "disloyal" intelligence analysts have been purged from the CIA by Porter Goss. And a brute because despite all the pentagon talk about fourth-generation warfare, the US military seems completely out of place fighting an urban guerrilla insurgency, and its favourite tools are overkill.

In the long run, we're all misquoted — not Keynes