One of the great ongoing, continuing fears of the dwindling band of victorious Cold War warriors, is how off- base American intellectuals are in their thought processes. For example, two of America’s greatest intellectuals, Professor Scott Galloway and Fareed Zakaria discussed the Israel-HAMAS War on Galloway’s podcast. The following is the relevant dialog:   “  GALLOWAY : I increasingly believe that the geopolitical or the catastrophic geopolitical decision of the last 50 years will be seen as our invasion of Iraq. ZAKARIA-Our weariness, the resources expended where like someone has gotten their eyebrows burned and we just don't want to get near any hot surface    any longer in the Middle East, that whether it's taking out a natural buffer to Iran, this incredible vacuum that we will in the fullness of time look back on going too far. Going into Afghanistan, absolutely justification. But going into Iraq will be seen as probably the greatest geopolitical mistake in US history

In 2003, twenty years ago this month, President George W. Bush’s America invaded the Iraq of Saddam Hussein.   Saddam Hussein was a very evil man; who had started wars against his neighbors Iran and Kuwait.   Saddam means " the one who confronts”; and he lived up to his given name.  He was evil before birth; his birth mother, feeling the Devil’s spawn within her, threw herself down a flight of stairs in order to abort Saddam. Alas, the Saddam version of ROSEMARY’S BABY survived. The Devil is    a powerful ally.   In his youth, Saddam had been a working man. Smart and ambitious, he hated the governing elite; so he joined the Baath Socialist Party; a party which advocated the union of the Arab states. It was a party of educators, academicians and intellectuals, with one working man, Saddam.   The ruler of Iraq was  Abd al-Karim Qasim, a military man who had made his bones leading a revolution which overthrew the pro-Western government of King Faisal II (the son of the character play