"Quit bashing and support your President? Be a patriot?" That is idiotic. Putting aside the obvious quip that I am sure that was not your position when Clinton was President, and I am sure that your position will again change when the next Democrat is elected President, since when has mindless adolation been a virtue? I am sorry. I was willing to give this guy (Bush) the benefit of the doubt back in 2001 and 2002, but at some point one has to look at results. The results have sucked. To put it mildly.

And yes, digger, I do have a degree in Political Science -- School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University. In addition, I have friends fairly highly placed in the military and the State Department and they all -- without exception -- believe that the present administration has f^&$ed this up and not through bad luck, but rather through refusing to face facts, reports or realities that did not otherwise comport with their preconceived notions. In otherwords, the "adults" were acting like spoiled children who did not get their way.

By the way, go read some of the articles that have come out in the past 2 years in Foreign Affairs or any of the other serious journals if you do not take my word for it. Even the Kato Institute and other seriously conservative think tanks are against the way we are handling the "war on terrorism."

"Support the President" isn't a plan, it is willful ignornance of reality -- the kind that puts us all in unnecessary jeapordy. Think about it.

As my mamma used to say, "if all of your friends jump off a cliff, are you going to jump too?"