"We Really Are That Dumb"

David P. Goldman (aka Spengler) isn't much impressed by the foreign policy chops of our last two presidents and their tame diplomats. In a bitter column for PJ Media, he takes a particularly dim view of our policies vis-a-vis the Middle East.

Goldman believes the Russian geopolitical chess masters suspect a cunning plot:

Try to explain to them that George W. Bush was a decent and well-intentioned man without a clue as to the consequences of his actions, and they will dismiss it as disinformatsiya. Tell them that the New York Times and the Weekly Standard both believed in the Arab Spring as the herald of a new era of Islamic democracy, and they will see it as proof of a conspiracy embracing both the Democratic and Republican establishments.

How, the paranoids ask, could two administrations in succession make so many blunders in succession? It stretches credibility. I wish it were a conspiracy. The truth is that we really are that dumb.

Would you hazard a guess Spengler hasn't been in agreement with our Middle East policies? It's an interesting article, hat tip to Instapundit for the link.