Clearly, members of the Bush II administration, and their intellectual allies among the neo-cons, believe that they can start another war (they just call it a surgical strike against weapons facilities in Iran), and still predict and control the consequences. They made similar false promises when they attacked Iraq, and look where we are now. To say they haven't been paying attention is to put it mildly. What was Einsteins definition of madness? Oh, yes! Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, and expecting a different result.