"Fantasies generate realities"

So Vargas Llosa says anyway.... Looking at what happened in Iraq, i'd say the paranoid fantasy of a world torn apart by terrorism was a stronger fantasy than the neo-con fantasy of "spreading democracy."

This article in Prospect, "The Democracy of Don Quixote" amused me as the writer does not once ascribe the American adventurism in Iraq as quixotic, but instead addresses the nature of ideology and the unreliable narrator. I'll admit that i'm a little suspicious of his motives, but it was interesting.