If tonight's debate has accomplished nothing else, it has demonstrated, beyond any last slim thread of doubt, that Texas Governor Rick Perry is criminally stupid. He would, he said, send American troops back into Iraq, today, so as to rebuff Iranian influence there -- which arose, of course, because we went in to begin with. Perry's neoconservative solution is to crank it all back up again; keep U.S. militarism going indefinitely in Afghanistan; and launch entirely fresh offensive efforts in Iran -- all while complaining about outrageous federal deficits.
That's not just stupid. It's criminally stupid.
p.s. Same holds true for Santorum. He just informed us there are no socioeconomic "classes" in America, which will come as something of a surprise to the socioeconomic classes presently at each other's throats.
No joke. This debate I almost skipped. The heaps of tea-partyish-populist imbecility thrown at us in such concentrated form are just too much for Civilized Man or intelligent beast.