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KC,
Political drift , intellectual indifference ( dumbing down ), and lack of leadership better describe the recent events that you eqaute with an emboldened GOP or contemporary society's "rightful" reaction to Mr. Bush.
Clinton was too busy getting his rod cleaned to take decisive steps about al Qaeda at the WTC, in Africa, or the Cole (leadership), the GOP and Dems took turns turning the political volume up and down with fruitless investigations ( drift ), and post 9-11, President Bush breaks the chain by standing up to demonstrate leadership and an American committment to utilizing the power that we legitimately hold.
Of course this leadership rocks the boat of interest groups on all sides of the equation. Europe was apopleptic because a real decision and commitment was required by it and in the end, Europe, with the exception of the UK, Spain, and east Europe behaved as expected. < though in fairness, let me say that Messers Clinton and Blair did (belatedly ) act in Bosnia while Paris and Bonn whacked off >.
And Iraq is admittedly FUBARed, but not because the mission was wrong -- it simply got f*cked up like so many things do in history. But evil is evil under any circumstance, and this is why this entire Iraq al Qaeda thing won't simply evaporate and go away like the liberal media, the dems, and certain cowards in Europe would like it to. Why? Because to admit this is to give credo to President Bush's gut instinct to act decisively ( albeit all FUBARed up ).
So who is emboldened and who is disingenuous? The cards are gonna fall where they will no matter how much the dems, or Brussels, or al Qaeda and Syria and Iran try to rig the game.
Barry
A voice of reason...
Wise men are instructed by reason; men of less understanding, by experience; the most ignorant, by necessity; and beasts, by nature.
- Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) (often called "Tully" for short)