People who do good things in certain areas of their lives can behave monstrously in others.
For example...
To me and my friends -- including a retired 3 star Air Force general -- it was clear from the moment Bush-Cheney started beating their war drums that the invasion of Iraq would be a catastrophic mistake.
The run-up to that war was as manifestly stupid as Trump's current saber-rattling with Iran.
Laura Ingraham, who should have known better, supported that idiotic war which has cost a million lives, reduced much of Iraq to rubble and destablized the rest of the Middle East - and arguably the rest of the world.
I applaud Ingraham for adopting three kids but she is, fundamentally, a gullible right-wing rube whose ill-informed participation in the "rush to war with Iraq" is immeasurably more reprehensible than the virtuousness of three adoptions.
Although each individual snowflade in an avalanche says "I am not responsible," preventable idiocy is always responsible for its consequences.
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Learn something!
Properly understood, The Iraq War was an ego-driven exercise in state-sponsored terrorism.
Responsibility for Iraq's ongoing tribulation derives directly from Bush-Cheney's Whimsy War.
Had this Whimsy War not taken place, a powerful (many would say, an "irrefutable") argument could be made that The Middle East would not have collapsed in chaos and that ISIS would not have been born.
500,000 to 1,100,000 Iraqis have already perished in Bush-Cheney's War of Choice, and millions more have suffered permanent physical and psychological damage.
If I had been among the damaged, I can easily imagine myself a hateful, sworn enemy of the United States.
If tables were turned and Iraq had occupied the United States with similar devastion, American patriots would rise up against Iraq with retributive hatred that would make ISIS look like Mother Theresa's convent.
Hans Blix' Fruitless Search For WMD And Bush/Cheney's Rush To War In Iraq
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/08/hans-blix-fruitless-search-for-wmd-and.html
Cheney's Lucid 1994 Rationale For NOT Invading Iraq. Conservatives "Must" See This
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/08/cheneys-lucid-1996-rationale-for-not.html
"The Fall Of Iraq. Jawdropping Video Footage Of Cheney, Albright, Gen Clarke & Others"
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/06/the-fall-of-iraq-jawdropping-video.html
