[mburbank]

Wasn't it Bush senior who gave Kennedy an award this year for political heroism?


"we are clearly winning The War on Terror"
I'm glad you're back. I can once again offer you a chance to say who you think is right. You, or Rummy, who said we have no yardstick by which to measure our progress in the 'war' on terror. I think you can't be 'clearly winning' a contest you have no way of defining. Libya's gesture, a good thing no matter what, is a gesture. Sadaam made the same gesture. Iran is making a similr gesture. In some cases these gestures are hailed as major victories and in some cases we invade looking for things we never find. We don't know who the terrorist are, we don't know where they are, we don't know what their organization is, we don't know what they have. We can and do attack their funding sources. We can and do catch and arrest who we can. We can and do topple dictators. But I think Rummy was uncharacteristically honest in saying that we don't know how we're doing. "Clearly Winning", like "Mission accopmplished" and "Bring 'em on" is better bumper sticker materia then policy. But we were only talking about electability, anyway.

I think W. will probably win. But I also think he is very vulnerable.