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Since the end of World War II, no US administration has indulged American idealism to the degree - and with the recklessness - that President George W Bush has. Previous presidents were better able to balance our raw idealism with our realist objectives, even though they often spoke the language of morality to the American people - telling us that we were the planet's moral beacon - while quietly ensuring that our impulses be checked by a cold dose of caution and realism. For better or worse, it was inevitable that our own idealism (or more cynically, our self-righteousness) would lead us to overreach.
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