Tom Engelhardt: The Ponzi Scheme Presidency: "If all roads once led to Rome, all acts of the Bush administration have led to destruction, and remarkably regularly to piles of dead or tortured bodies, counted or not. In fact, it's reasonable to say that every Bush administration foreign policy dream, including its first term fantasy about a pacified 'Greater Middle East' and its late second term vision of a facilitated 'peace process' between the Israelis and Palestinians, has ended in piles of bodies and in failure. Consider this a count all its own.
Looked at another way, the Bush administration's Global War on Terror and its subsidiary wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have, in effect, been a giant Ponzi scheme. At a cost of nearly one trillion taxpayer dollars to date (but sure to be in the multi-trillions when all is said and done), Bush's mad 'global war' simply sucked needed money out of our world at levels that made Bernie Madoff seem like a small fry. "
(Via Huffington Blog.)
