Condi and John Work the Tired Con Job

So what did Rice and McCain say? That the world remains a dangerous place; that America must remain strong; that we must stand for freedom, as we always have in the past; that we must lead because only we can; that we are an exceptional nation; that others will believe in us if only we believe in ourselves.

Once upon a time, those phrases had consequences. Americans spent billions of dollars in wars that killed or maimed tens of thousands of Americans and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and Afghans because people like Rice and McCain told us that Saddam Hussein was making the world a dangerous place and that America needed to stand up for freedom. If only we believed in ourselves, they said back then, Iraqis and Afghans would embrace our conquests, and eventually the entire world would see the justness of our cause.