Courting disaster

Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, chief of staff to ex-Secretary of State Colin Powell, on U.S. policy under the Cheney/Rumsfeld junta:

And I would say that we have courted disaster, in Iraq, in North Korea, in Iran, generally with regard to domestic crises like Katrina, Rita and I could go on back, we haven’t done very well on anything like that in a long time. And if something comes along that is truly serious, truly serious, something like a nuclear weapon going off in a major American city, or something like a major pandemic, you are going to see the ineptitude of this government in a way that will take you back to the Declaration of Independence. ...

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