I read a few days ago about Cheney's lack of social interaction even with his own family members. The symptoms reminded me of a recent description I have read of autism which in it's most profound forms involves a total inability to interact or empathize with people.
It seems I was not the first to make this association:
Those who have known him over the years remain astounded by what they describe as his almost autistic indifference to the thoughts and feelings of others. "He has the least interest in human beings of anyone I have ever met," says John Perry Barlow, his former supporter. Cheney's freshman-year roommate, Steve Billings, agrees: "If I could ask Dick one question, I'd ask him how he could be so unempathetic."
http://www.rollingstone.com/...
and Bush too?
In part one of this post I said that I think George W. Bush is not quite right. I think his wiring is faulty. I don't think he's crazy. I think he is borderline autistic. I think that not because of how he acts as President, but because of incidents from his youth and young adulthood that are completely in keeping with how he acts as President. I also think that he has undiagnosed learning disorders, as well.
And the Neocons too?
It's obvious by now to anyone who isn't a card-carrying member of the autistic political right that Cheney and his chamberlains are trying to pull the same kind of intelligence bake sale on Iran that they pulled on Iraq. The neocon cabal's assertion that it somehow knows more about Iran's nuclear intentions than the CIA and the other U.S. intelligence agencies would be laughable if not for the fact that the Cheney-bots have already displayed an uncanny talent for selling air conditioners to Eskimos.