Will American Insouciance Destroy the World?

Paul Craig Roberts gives us an unnerving but insightful follow-up to The Caucasian Ultimatum. He warns that we're in the closest thing we've had to a nuclear showdown since the Cuban Missile crisis, only then, adults ran things in DC. Roberts, who served in the Reagan administration, knows the men in charge today well enough to know we should all be frightened -- very frightened:

Dick Cheney, the insane American Vice President telephoned Saakashvili to express US solidarity with Georgia in the conflict with Russia and declared: "Russian aggression must not go unanswered." Cheney's telephone call is like Great Britain's "guarantee" to Poland against Nazi Germany. Only a complete idiot would tell Saakashvili anything other than "to cease immediately." ...

The US military certainly has no resources for a war against Russia on top of lost wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and a planned war with Iran.

Worse, enough people in this country still believe whatever lies pour forth from the mouth of W the Great to support another losing war -- and again, in a corner of the world that is no threat to us.