Rick Santorum, desperate for anyone to even admit he exists, comes out with the latest dubious proposal. From BuzzFeed:
“It’s like, if all the tool you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail,” Santorum told Glenn Beck on Thursday. “Every problem that the State Department has, the answer is diplomacy. Why? Because if it’s not diplomacy, they don’t have a job.” …
“I have said that,” Santorum replied. “I said that when I ran four years ago — the first thing I’d do is abolish the State Department and start all over.”
Uh huh. And, Rick, you think they’re autonomous and just make bad treaties without oversight?
This is why we have executive positions, baby! Like the one you’d have us believe you’re running for! The Secretary of State comes to you with, hey, this is what we can do, and, like, you say, no way, not good enough, let’s bomb them instead!
This is the crap that happens when, faced with picking from orders from above and reality, you pick the former and then apply logic. Logic without good assumptions, i.e., factual understanding, is just another form of garbage. Just harder to recognize as such.
