If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?"

The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.

He is about as well-put-together and focused as a zombie at a tractor pull.

After Afghanistan we could expect that we learned some lessons. But we repeated all the stupidity possible in Chechnya. It would be impossible to say Russia stopped the war, but you could say that only Russia lost the war.

Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it

What shall I say? Everything that I could say would fade into insignificance compared with what my heart feels, and your hearts feel, at this moment.