Stating The Obvious

Hosni Mubarak (who isn't the nicest guy in the world) lays it out, speaking ver-r-r-r-r-r-y slowly, so that even a jackass like Rummy can understand:

Your actions have consequences.

I already used "File under 'N' for 'No Shit, Dick Tracy,'" and that's a damn shame. I find it really difficult to understand that the neoconservatives couldn't see this coming. I mean, they're not stupid--ideologically blinded, perhaps, but not stupid. It seems rather elementary to connect the following dots (Hume's questioning of causality aside):

1. There is a place in the world where most of the people do not like America already because of our foreign policy and support of the State of Israel at the expense of the Palestinians.

2. Expressing near-total support for the extremist head of the State of Israel might lead a lot of those people in that region of the world to further dislike and distrust the US.

3. If #2 is true, then invading and occupying a country in the region, which involves dropping a lot of bombs in urban areas and killing a lot of noncombatants, based on a pack of lies and a clear lust for oil and geostrategic dominance, is REALLY going to piss some people off.

But no one could see that coming, right?