The quote of the day: Stephen Holmes on John Yoo and his fellow neocons:
[I]f the misbegotten Iraq war proves anything, it is the foolhardiness of allowing an autistic clique that reads its own newspapers and watches its own cable news channel to decide, without outsider input, where to expend American blood and treasure — that is, to decide which looming threats to stress and which to downplay or ignore.
in The Matador’s Cape, America’s Reckless Response to Terror, Cambridge University Press, p. 301 - reviewed by Chalmers Johnson.
