DR SANITY PUTS THE LEFT ON THE COUCH to psychoanalyze their high anxiety caused by their perception that the evil Bush will attack the non-threatening Ahmadinejad and the peace loving clerics holding power in Iran.

Yes, let's examine for a moment the idea that a regime that has been making war against us for 27 years (without a significant response by us, by the way, in all that time) is somehow not perceived as a threat and does not generate much anxiety; but the President of the US who stands up against the terrorism of Saddam, Bin Laden, and Ahmadinejad and the Mullahs generates high anxiety? This puzzling phenomenon has two psychological aspects. The first one is a very neurotic psychological defense mechanism known as "displacement".

Displacement is at the heart of Bush Derangement Syndrome.

Read the whole blog entry for Feb. 16, 2007.