Incoherence is a feature, not a bug

Exactly.

Shorter Krauthammer:

The Bush Doctrine? It's forty different things! It's democracy, whiskey and sexy! It's John Kennedy! Suck on that, Charles Gibson!

Here's a testimony to the profound fucktacularity of the Bush years: In defending the the most ill-informed and incurious vice presidential nominee in modern American history, conservatives are reduced to pretty much conceding that they've been endorsing an incoherent foreign policy for eight years.

When I read that, first I snorted water through my nose. Then I grew profoundly depressed.