‘The biggest pitfall in predicting the behaviour of
radical groups like the inner circle of the Bush administration is that you
keep telling yourself that they would never actually do whatever it is they’re
talking about. Surely they must realize that acting like that would cause a
disaster. Then they go right ahead and do it. 

“(The Iranians) must know everything is on the table and
they must understand what that means,” U.S. ambassador to the United Nations
John Bolton told a group of visiting British politicians last week. “We can hit
different points along the line. You only have to take out one part of their
nuclear operation to take the whole thing down.” In other words, he was calmly
proposing an illegal attack on a sovereign state, possibly involving nuclear
weapons.’ 

Logic Out The
Window At The White House