George Soros wrote perhaps the most succinct assessment of the worst policy since Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD):
http://news.yahoo.com/s/huffpost/20060930/cm_huffpost/030591
At least the proposition of MAD was that insanity could be a deterrent. The Bush/Rice/Rumsfield "war on terror" is all incompassing foreign/domestic policy that seems to have blinded the current administration to the inevitable conclusion of our present course, which is no less than the destruction of our Republic. Our future is burning as never before, and History will judge whether our Democracy prevails or we have doomed ourselves to repeat failures of past Empires by ignoring its lessons.