I found this massive idiocy this morning. I am actually at a loss for words. I wonder how people could possibly believe this but then remember Jim Jones and Heaven's Gate. I still wonder.

Andrew Bacevich has an excellent post-mortem of our recent past. There is an inertia to human affairs that resembles the inertia in physics: motion will continue in the original direction until outside forces act to change trajectory and/or velocity. Or to put the matter Biblically: the sins of the fathers pass to future generations. I would amend that to read simply "actions of the fathers" because our actions set up ripples that continue into the future--sometimes a long time into the future.