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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Orcastraiter who wrote (451597)	9/2/2003 1:03:02 PM
From: cnyndwllr	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Orcastraiter. You may well be right. In days past, the men with the "nuke em all" attitudes had no chance of controlling policy. There was the threat of devastating nuclear war with the Soviet Union and Americans were very wary of immature, testosterone driven policies. With the threat of the Soviets gone and the U.S. as the most powerful nation the world has ever known, the American public is much more willing to tolerate, even encourage, foreign policies that are aggressive and to empower those that appeal to our sense of power and might. Unfortunately, it appears that we are creating a pattern that is very dangerous in the mid and long term. In the short term the more we exercise our military might in foreign countries, the more we'll create and encourage terrorists who fall under the radar of conventional forces. In the long run, the response of other nations to aggression is first fear, second anger, and third counter aggression. Hopefully someone will end the parade before it heads off the cliff. In the meantime I don't thing Kerry is the guy to do it. I suspect he's still too impacted by his war experiences and that they color his views on too many issues. That's good in the sense that he KNOWS the limits of conventional power but it's bad in the sense that it seems he's too fragile emotionally and appears too "weak" at a time when we're looking for strong leadership. I like General Clark but I haven't seen enough of him yet.