And You Can Play Too!
Somebody way smarter than me has probably already said this, but...

I've been hearing all day about various neo-cons saying that the real solution is to put even more American troops into Iraq. Every time I heard this I thought, "They can't seriously believe anybody is going to do that, right?" So, I asked myself, why do they keep saying it? And then it occurred to me: if your idea for fixing things is something that will never happen, then when things finish spinning down the drain as they inevitably will in Iraq, you can claim that your idea would have worked if only people had listened to you.

It is a grab for the illusion of wisdom, or at least a claim of having been right all along even though your idea was never tested. The danger for the neo-cons here, of course, is that their theories actually would be tested. Tested again, I should say, since their ideas were already quite thoroughly accepted and tested by the Bush Administration and that's how we've ended up with the mess we're in now.

The great thing is that Untestable Wisdom is a game even a dope like me can play and win at. Watch:

The real solution in Iraq is to make everybody go around bare-naked. If nobody is allowed to wear clothes, the militias would wither and die for lack of places to conceal their guns. So, yes, anybody who wears clothing in Iraq should be shot on sight.

If only people would try my solution, they'd finally see how right I really am.