policy is a disdain for professionals and a lack of interest in history or past policy. when asked during the campaign to name a few experts whom he consulted with on foreign policy, he replied, "my primary consultant is myself." the policies we are witnessing from ukraine to the middle east are a direct consequence of the triumph of gut over brain. of emotion over intelligence, and of personal admission over national interests. and some of the pushback in recent weeks has been the revolt of experts finally fed up with the mess. watching the syria debacle, one cannot help but think of f. scott fitzgerald's description of two rich, arrogant, and intellectually uncurious characters in "the great gatsby." they were careless people, tom and daisy, he wrote. they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together and let other people clean up the mess they had made. for more, go to cnn.com/fareed