What have we ever gotten for all this supposed "experience"? Kissinger's wealth of it makes him as worthy as a street walker that started young, stayed at it and never took vacations. We shouldn't forget the numerous aspiring diplomats that were fired or relegated for accurately describing facts on the ground in 1970's Iran. The ones that were allowed "experience" at State were either too dumb to notice what was going on or too sleazy to endanger their careers. Dr. K's vast "experience" told him it was okay to betray the Kurds, fine to sanction kidnapping, murder and torture and in our "best interest" to encourage and enable massacre and despotism.

Another recurring nightmare of American vision is Michael Ledeen who claimed Khoumeni was a commie, hung out with Licio Gelli's mass murdering entourage, believes few of us are good enough to be told the truth and hasn't a qualm about attacking foreign countries on the most whimsical pretext.

Madeline Albright said that hundreds of thousands of dead Iraqi infants were "worth it" on an internationally broadcast TV show. What exactly "it" was never got explained to us. She also claimed we have to use force because "we see further into the future." And uh...oh yeah because we are the 'indespensable nation." This woman went ham handedly around the globe offending or annoying every foreign official she met with almost without exception. Several pieces of paper, identical to those possessed by thousands of others, said she was "qualified."

A perpetual wealth of "experience" festers over at the Heritage Foundation and similar "think tanks" (they "think" their opinions should drown out common peoples). One "Bill" (as W refers to him) Kristol has been waring us about Iran for over a decade. He has demanded we attack that country at least once a week for the past 6 years. The president has personally greeted him by first name on television. Yet he also complains that Persians have been violating Iraqi "sovereignty" (ostensibly hundreds of thousands of US troops, mercenaries and others there are ensuring it). The idea that the continually published and aired threats of people like himself necessarily motivates Irani policy has not occurred them. The Iranians are expected to allow things to settle nicely next door so the Americans can prepare their destruction in an orderly fashion.

I could go on but suffice it to say that no one compliant with recent decades of US activity abroad is "qualified" if results are to be considered. Most of them belong in prison.