The Four Steps of Bush Foreign Policy

Atrios sums it all up:

Self-Justifying

The problem is, however, that we have people in power who do want to bomb Iran. And we have a bunch of people who like to swing their dicks around. And we have a lot of people who, yes, think "don't take that thang out, unless you plan to bang."

So how this works:

1) We take that thang out, as taking it out has rather broad support
2) People argue, not entirely without merit, that we shouldn't have taken that thang out unless we planned to bang.
3) 2) is used to justify the decision to, in fact, bang.
4) Bang!


The wise course is to put the damn thing back in your pants.