Think about that. These people, top to bottom, are losers. They cannot compete to achieve, they cannot innovate to achieve, so they win at anything they can in any way they can.

To them the smallest win counteracts the largest defeat. All their lives they have escaoed outright failure because there has always been someone with enough clout to pull their nuts from the fire.

But all they saw was that, in the end, they WON.

Now they are in a place where there is nobody with enough power to save their terminally stupid asses and they keep playing the same games with the same idiotic attitude, always looking for the WIN!

They attacked Iraq because it was a "target rich environment", in other words, they could have lots of wins.

They though Schiavo would be a WIN, so they broke every speed record to get there.

These people are pathological gamblers; their need to win can never be satisfied and, because of their pathology, they have no way of assessing risk or building and carrying out a strategy.

But to them it doesn't matter. For the addicted gambler, the $100 WIN!!! outweighs the million dollar loss.

They ignore the losses and go to ever greater extremes in search of a win, any win, at any value, for any reason. Only the win matters.

For most of us, fear of loss keeps us relatively sane. I feel more damage from the $100 loss than the euphoria I get from the $1,000 win, so I keep my risks in bounds and I live a relaitvely safe life.

These people are wired the other way round, and this is what happens when such people get their hands on the levers of the most powerful nation the world has ever seen. And they will destroy it before they acknowledge even a single loss, let alone their responsibility for it.