This topic's closer to home and has more relevance to me as an American. M ost fools are harmless.
Harmless fools are stupid, and most of the damage they do is to themselves.
But there s another type of fool, and, unlike the other, this one s very dangerous. He s smart, though not very wise, and the havoc he creates is always at someone else s expense. Examples of this kind of fool are found in the White House, Capitol Hill, the Pentagon and numerous other government offices. On the editorial page Tom Donnelly donned his coxcomb and upbraided the military for their reaction to the bombing of the U.S.S. Cole. From reading Donnelly's screed, proper appreciation of this quasi-imperial role appears to be defined as a willingness to play tough guy with other people's kids.