Truly Frightening

Glenn Greenwald picks up on the same meeting that Fred Barnes alluded to so glowingly, a white house meeting between Bush and his neo-conservative tutors. You've really got to read the entire post at Salon, which concludes

One can see that dynamic powerfully at work in the interaction between these neoconservatives and the President. They have seized upon the President's evangelical fervor and equated his "calling" to wage war for Good in the world with the neoconservative agenda of endless wars in the Middle East.

Incompetence combined with simplistic fervor, mixed with a dose of ideological fantasy is a toxic brew indeed.