unintelligent design or intelligent undesign

* there are two memes gathering traction that we've been discussing a lot lately: one, it's difficult to know whether the egadministration is intentionally fucking everything up, or if they are simply massively incompetent. two, it is essentially irrelevant.

here's tristero:

A cynic, or a paranoid, might think that a terrorist breeding ground was the goal all along for Bush/ Iraq - to create a genuine existential threat for the US to fight - which would maximize profits, destroy liberalism, etc. I don't think that's so. It's too simplistic a formulation to satisfy me; the world is more complicated than that. But in a certain sense it doesn't really matter. Deliberate psychopathy or blithering stupidity or both: The reality is that Bush has opened the gates of Hell.