Beneath the widespread stubborn American refusal to understand the Russian government’s motives for its condemnable invasion of Ukraine is the equally widespread stubborn refusal to learn from the U.S. government’s wrong moves with respect to Russia over the last 30 years. But even deeper is the widespread stubborn refusal to even entertain the possibility that the U.S. government might have made any wrong moves at all.
‘It’s Not My Fault,’ Plead Guilty Neocons
In its early days, Saturday Night Live got a lot of comedy mileage out of Chevy Chase satirizing President Gerald Ford’s clumsiness with exaggerated pratfalls and stumbles. It wasn’t just SNL. Comedian Bob Hope piled on, saying you could always find Ford on the golf...

































