I highly recommend that you read Victor Davis Hanson's May 6 commentary in Private Papers.
Here's an excerpt from "Democratic Suicide" --
... if al Qaeda, operating from a sanctuary in Iran or Syria, took out the Sears Tower, how would a Kennedy, Kerry, or Gore respond? Six cruise missiles? A police matter? Proper work for the DA? Better "intelligence"? Let's work with our allies? Get the U.N. involved?
Whatever we think of George Bush, we know he would do something real — and just what that something might be frightens into hesitation — and yes, fear — many of those who would otherwise like to try something pretty awful.
Occasionally, it's worthwhile to remind our comfortable selves that we are at war. It's important to remember that the only reason we have been spared another 9/11--for a long enough time that some of us act as though we have forgotten it--is because President Bush did "something real" about it.
