Why Oh Why Are We Ruled by These Morons?

Jim Henley listens to Condi Rice, and his brain explodes

Unqualified Offerings: This New Post-Cold-War World: [Condoleezza Rice says:] "When the President spoke at Whitehall in London, he talked about 60 years of trying to buy stability at the expense of freedom, and getting neither. Now we are attempting the reverse..."

Leave aside the libel of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S Truman, and Dwight D. Eisenhower, who did not "buy stability at the expense of freedom" but rather did more for human freedom than anybody else, ever. Just what is "the reverse"? Buying freedom at the expense of stability? (But freedom is not bought.) Selling stability in return for freedom?