Thanks to Princeton University's Emily Pronin, we may have yet another way to explain why the neo-cons led us into the debacle in Iraq . Pronin has a study which examines the phenomenon of "magical thinking," peoples' belief that they have influenced distant events or can sense connections between things that have no known physical connection. Clearly, Dead Eye Dick, Wee Willie Kristol, Paul "Socks" Wolfowicz and the rest of the neo-con crowd were engaged in "magical thinking" when they imagined the Al-Qaeda--Saddam Hussein link, WMDs, the insurgency in its "last throes," "Mission Accomplished," a democratic, peaceful Iraq, etc., etc. Some of the same magical thinkers are now turning their attention to Iran. Bibbity-bobbity-BOOM!
