Do you remember about ten years ago when the so-called vulcans on Bush’s national security council rather contemptuously dismissed their opponents? The vulcans prided themselves on their hard-headed realism in international affairs. Their critics said that going to war in Iraq ignored the realities of politics in that part of the world. Cheney’s vulcans, who tried to make everyone who disagreed with them feel like a sissy, replied, “We create our own reality.”
Now you see the reality they made. The vulcans wanted a friendly, peaceful regime in Iraq, secure access to oil shipped through the Strait of Hormuz, a bulwark against sworn enemy Iran, no home anywhere for al Qaeda, and a stable environment that would sustain friendly countries like Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt and Israel. Look what we have instead:
- Civil war in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Egypt, and Libya.
- Refugees by the millions in Iraq, Kurdistan…
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Was that quote actually stated, on the record, by someone in the Bush administration, and if so by whom when and where? The version I saw (“the reality based community”) was asserted by a critic of the administration to have been said by an (unnamed) member of the administration, which isn’t a very strong reason to believe it. Not, at least, for those who don’t believe in making their own reality.
Thanks for your comment. I just read a September 2011 article by Jacob Weisberg in Slate that argues Ron Suskind, the source of the quotation, is not to be trusted. So you have a point. Here’s the Weisberg piece:
(http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/the_big_idea/2011/09/dont_believe_ron_suskind.html)