What a world, what a world

The Wizard of Oz

(1939)

Foreign policy since World War II: naively we fall for lousy intelligence ("Follow the yellowcake road"), we put our fate in the hands of the brainless, the heartless (and oil-obsessed), and the politically gutless, and we ally ourselves with very bad men and very bad wizards and end up in the middle of nowhere without a clear exit strategy.