They Had No Empathy

(number - 5)

And so Bush initiated the disaster which we now refer to as the Quagmire in Iraq. Things are not going well in Iraq. The Bush administration thought that after we invaded Iraq the Iraqi males would convert to Christianity and do foreskin restoration. The BA apparently had no capacity to put themselves into the skins of their opponents and reason from their perspective. That is to say the Bush Administration was (and now is) suffering from a fundamental personality defect: lack of empathy. They had no empathy.