Fools and Buffoons

Good post over at the MoJo Blog by Bradford Plummer on the recent trend amongst the war hawks critical of how the Iraqi war is going. My favorite exerpt is the final sentence:

when thinking about a government policy in the abstract, assume that it will be executed not by enlightened leaders, but by fools and buffoons. Ninety-nine times out of a hundred, you'll be right.

Personally I would add power hungry, militaristic, imperialist, and a number of other adjectives in front of "fools and buffoons".