it seems like the neo-cons, distressed by the failure of their great iraqi project, have gone beyond mere denial and are now just trying to out-crazy each other.
later today robert kagan will say, "oh yeah, ledeen? well, i'll see your iran and syria attack and raise you one strike on north korea." then neo-con rocket scientist doug feith will chime in; "oh yeah? i can top that. we should attack iran, syria, north korea, and iraq!"
"uh doug," says bolton, "we did iraq already."
"yeah, but none of that was my fault!"