[JohnGalt]

Ike is an interesting fellow. I think he believed he could actually control the forces that are constantly in search of a foreign monster to destroy.

With the neoconservatives attempting to bring FDR in to the neo-lexicon of heroes, it will be interesting to see where Ike ends up. He was no friend to the Old Right, but I would find it interesting if history makes him a liberal hero.

[TedsGarage]

Ike was one of the great presidents of the 20th Century. Was there ever a better decade for America than the 1950s? Ike contained the Communists without getting us into war, and he allowed the Civil Rights movement to progress without letting it spin into the radicalism that later defined both sides. Ike was conservative, but he was not a right-winger. He was a practical leader, rather than an ideologue. His biggest mistake was accepting Nixon to make peace with the John Birch kooks in the party.

[philosofy123]

If Carter, Reagan, Bush the first, and Clinton were not sleeping on the job, and took their responsibility seriously, they would have confronted these Jihadists before they became an international phenomenon. I am sure even this president (who still thinks that Islam is a religion of peace) would not have acted if it was not for 9/11.