In America

Chickens coming home to roost:

“There are two ways to make sure your executive is a good leader — either by selecting people of good character or putting limits on what they can do — and America and Israel today have failed at both,” Mukunda said. “This war is the most perfect example of what happens when you disdain all forms of expertise, knowledge and principles, in favor of gut instincts.” Experts had predicted everything that went wrong in the war. 

Unfortunately, no part of knowing this matters one bit since we've decided as a nation to determinedly double down on stupid no matter how many times we're proven wrong.