Glenn Greenwald: "The (Imminent?) Collapse Of The Bush Presidency Poses Risks"

Glenn Greenwald has another post, this one about how the Bush Administration is imploding, and why we need to know the risks involved before it happens. Here's a snip:

Bush officials and their followers talk incessantly about things like power, weakness, domination, humiliation. Their objectives -- both foreign and domestic -- are always to show their enemies that they are stronger and more powerful and the enemies are weaker and thus must submit ("shock and awe"). It is a twisted world view but it dominates their thinking (and that is how our country has been governed for the last six years, which is what accounts for our current predicament). As John Dean demonstrated, a perception of one's weakness and the resulting fears it inspires are almost always what drive people to seek out empowering authoritarian movements and the group-based comforts of moral certitude.

The most dangerous George Bush is one who feels weak, powerless and under attack. Those perceptions are intolerable for him and I doubt there are many limits, if there are any, on what he would be willing to do in order to restore a feeling of power and to rid himself of the sensations of his own weakness and defeat.

Indeed.

However, we aren't necessarily right in keeping him in office just so George won't have to face reality for once in his frickin' life.