Have Bush and the Neocons gone insane?

Posted under hglindquist to the Bob Herbert forum in the NYTimes website, Thursday, July 28, in response to his Op/Ed column "Oil and Blood":

hglindquist - 9:10 AM ET July 28, 2005 (#28643)

In 1987, David Lamb, the noted reporter and author, wrote in The Arabs: Journeys Beyond the Mirage, "The stakes are high for the world in the Gulf war. If Khomeini wins and a wildfire of Shiite fundamentalism spreads through the region, Iran could control Arabia's oil fields. It is a script the United States and Western Europe would use military force to prevent."

Instead of preventing the spread of Shiite fundamentalism in the Middle East, Bush and the Neocons have used our military force to help its spread.

Today's news is filled with stories of the relentless push by the current transitional government in Iraq to install Shiite fundamentalism in Iraq. An example is found in the editorial, "Off Course in Iraq", in today's (Thursday, July 21, 2005) New York Times, which reads is part: "Most chilling of all are the prospects for Iraqi women. As things now stand, their rights are about to be set back by nearly 50 years because of new family law provisions inserted into a draft of the constitution at the behest of the ruling Shiite religious parties. These would make Koranic law, called Shariah, the supreme authority on marriage, divorce and inheritance issues."

And we are supporting this? Have our leaders gone totally mad?