These people suck at Foreign Policy

Dear Lord, please deliver us from incompetent dumbasses that view foreign affairs as game of Risk. Condi Rice, Elliot Abrams, and George Fucking Bush have no idea what they are doing, unless starting and losing civil wars is some sort strategy. With this crowd, who knows?

Vanity Fair has obtained confidential documents, since corroborated by sources in the U.S. and Palestine, which lay bare a covert initiative, approved by Bush and implemented by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Deputy National Security Adviser Elliott Abrams, to provoke a Palestinian civil war. The plan was for forces led by Dahlan, and armed with new weapons supplied at America’s behest, to give Fatah the muscle it needed to remove the democratically elected Hamas-led government from power. (The State Department declined to comment.)

But the secret plan backfired [ed. note – um, naturally], resulting in a further setback for American foreign policy under Bush. Instead of driving its enemies out of power, the U.S.-backed Fatah fighters inadvertently provoked Hamas to seize total control of Gaza.

Really, this is all too predictable if one examines the neo-con record of accomplishment (or lack thereof). Not satisfied with wretched state of Iraq and Afghanistan, the Administration decides to bungle some stupid cloak and dagger shit in Palestine. Ugh. At every turn, these morons make exactly the wrong decision.

(hat tip to Atrios)