The Dumbest F***ing Guy on the Planet

By David Silbey. Is back, and Politico thinks that he’s worth quoting on Iraq:

“This is the education of Barack Obama, but it’s coming at a very high cost to the Syrian people to the Iraqi people [and] to the American national interest,” said Doug Feith, a top Pentagon official during the George W. Bush administration.
“They were pretty blasé,” Feith said of the Obama team. “The president didn’t take seriously the warnings of what would happen if we withdrew and he liked the political benefits of being able to say that we’re completely out.”

Just to remind yourself of how hopelessly incompetent Douglas Feith was during the Iraq War, I offer this and this. More...