Bush with superior judgement

By Fester:

Eric Martin over at Obsidian Wings is looking at the divorce of intent based morality, consequence and therefore responsibility ethos of morality and foreign policy. The McCain campaign and foreign policy advisers are chest beating idiots who advocate morality without responsibility for probable outcomes.  This is prompting their Cold War II,  and  World War V rhetoric; it also prompts this scary passage from Eric:

Yet war supporters were safe to bask in their smug judgmentalism in the knowledge that even the Bush administration would not be so reckless.  However, Andrew Sullivan is right to be concerned that when it comes to a potential McCain presidency, the safe harbor for the judgmental-set might be lost.

Safe harbor in this passage refers to Bush Administration non-recklessness.

Remember this is the administration that thought FEMA was doing one hell of a job.

Remember this is the administration that thought Chalabi was a credible and popular leader.

Remember this is the administration that routinely denies inconvenient science.

Remember this is the administration that decided going fast and light was a fool proof way to catch Bin Laden at Tora Bora.

Remember this is the administration whose Pakistan policy has long been a Musharaff policy.

And remember, in this context, this administration is less reckless than the McCain campaign.

Now that I remember this, I think it is time to drink.