Three Blind Mice

Pulitzer Prize winner Thomas Friedman knows what he’s talking about when he describes three of our world’s leaders as the stupidest people the world has ever seen.

Donald Trump, Benjamin Netanyahu and Vladimir Putin are drastically different men, but they do have one important thing in common: Each thinks he is the smartest person in any room he enters. Alas, though, because they have all done the dumbest thing you can do as a leader — surround yourself with sycophants — they have all blundered into dead-end wars from which they can extricate themselves today only by eating a banquet of crow. Watch out. There is nothing more dangerous than a reckless leader faced with a plate of crow: Sometimes his instinct is to double down on a losing strategy instead.

The world will be better off when these three are off the world stage and wiser men take over and negotiate ends to these stupid and pointless conflicts.