The Power of Hyperbole
Once again, you attempt to spin justified self-criticism into self-hatred. Not buying.
If you wish to speak to the problem of Belief, you need go no further than your own friends whose Belief that democracy can be installed without education, preparation, or economic support, but because it's a Good Thing, has led to the election of the Hamas government.
Rice admits "our" people had poor intelligence on the subject. What, again??