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To: FaultLine who wrote (82839)	3/17/2003 12:14:09 AM
From: BCherry168	Respond to of 281500

FL, what Fareed Zakaria is saying is that George Bush should engage in conduct that will insure his defeat in the next election to please folks that wouldn't vote for him anyway. Hope nobody holds their breath until that happens. And he is wrong about it anyway.

To: FaultLine who wrote (82839)	3/17/2003 12:28:02 AM
From: Mike M	Respond to of 281500

That is an excellent article. It is balanced albeit portrays the Clinton Presidency's efforts a bit too generously. That, however, makes sense given what is the general thesis of the article. While Bush could indeed have done better in managing foreign affairs, 9-11 gave him a crash course (no pun intended) in external matters. I suspect all of us have on occasion determined if we had it all to do over again we might have done a few things differently... On the other hand, I doubt many other nations, had they been in similar circumstances would have handled it better. Absolute power is a known corrupting force yet our sins appear to be those of omission more than commission, to this point. It would appear that this article doesn't purport to suggest that that would change based on our military actions with Iraq. I suspect President Bush will get better with time. I also believe that Mr Rumsfeld's free wheeling speaking engagements will be somewhat muted. In the mean time, even terrorists will have to think twice before they target the US. Their own welcome in whatever country they inhabit, will for obvious reasons, be scrutinized. Europe has indeed become a pacifist breeding ground wary of American power and less sympathetic to our 9-11 experience. This is likely made more perverse by the insidious expansion of Islam across many Western borders. The issue that the author has failed to digest is that a state of war exists and the extent to which old alliances can be counted upon remains unclear. I fear that the judeo Christian vs Islamic militantness pending confrontation has barely begun to enter the human consciousness.