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To: Original Mad Dog who wrote (6206)	3/22/2003 1:15:00 PM
From: Poet	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 7689

President Bush is not the most articulate of the world's heads of state. Elitists who speak artfully, while failing to listen honestly, dismiss him. To characterize those who are articulate as 'elitists' is laughable. And I know few people who disagree with Bush's war tactics who are dismissive of him. Indeed, he is regarded quite seriously-- as the engineer of a new US diplomatic stance which, for the most part, disregards the very history and alliances that helped make our country something to be proud of.

To: Original Mad Dog who wrote (6206)	3/22/2003 3:29:50 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 7689

I've got a problem with that piece. More than one, actually. To say it is simplistic is like saying a 100-megaton bomb is an explosive. The world is covered with dictatorships. Probably 1/2 to 3/4, maybe more, of gov'ts are really dictatorships. Most of these claim to be democracies but are fake democracies, not working democracies. If one man or one party always wins an "election", it's a dictatorship. So are we going to wipe out all of these? Can we? And if so, could we then establish democracies in all these different countries? And the isolationist in me just asked: "Are we the world's cop? Who made us so? And why would we want such a bloody, thankless, expensive job?"