Knowledge is Elitist

As Matthew Yglesias points out, McCain't foreign policy advisor Robert Kagan thinks so. In fact, the neocons believe that all is needed is a solid gut-level nationalism to deal with increasingly sophisticated foreign powers. They actually think that an in-depth knowledge of foreign relations is harmful to the job of being president. And this isn't some election-year propagandizing to increase identification with the Republican ticket. Yglesias has read up on Kagan over the years, and this is basic neoconservative thought on foreign policy.

Makes sense ... if you want to send the nation down the fucking tubes the way Bush/Cheney and Rumsfeld have. The ironic thing -- and the scary thing as well -- is that it leaves all the empirical thinking, analysis, and very high-level deciding mostly to people who have absolutely no fucking accountability to the American people.

All the more reason why the McCain't ticket is dangerous, reckless, and absolute WRONG for this country.