[jocon307]

"If on September 10th, we had arrested 19 Arab men who the FBI said were planning to hijack planes and fly them into the World Trade Center and Pentagon, what would the left have said?"

Well the thing of it is, nobody would have said much of anything. The dog that didn't bite just isn't news. Even to this day it really hasn't sunk into my brain that the so-called Millenium Bomb plot was foiled, and it isn't because that would be to give credit where due to Clinton, or whoever. I don't think the prevention of that plot has seeped into anyone's mind, left or right. Or the terrorists convicted in NY of plans to blow up the Holland Tunnel, the Lincoln Tunnel, etc.

Before 9/11 we just weren't on war footing. Should we have been? Yes. Could Clinton (or other presidents, Carter, whoever) have made us realize we needed to be? Maybe, but they didn't. Does Bush get it? Yes.

But my lingering question (my tagline not withstanding) is DO the American people get it?

[dawn53]

But my lingering question (my tagline not withstanding) is DO the American people get it?

I don't think they do.

My son had to give a speech in class about a political candidate. He chose Bush, of course, LOL, and had as one of his talking points the fact that the economy was rebounding.

Then he used Clinton's "it's the economy stupid" quote, but used it to lead the listener to the fact that if another terrorist attack happens, the economy will be down the tubes again, so the only real issue is the WOT.

His professor, (who told the class he hates Bush, such unbiased education in college these days, LOL) gave him an A+ and wrote on his paper that his economy argument was a strong persuasive point.

Could it be that this professor had never logically thought through the issue before? It appears that way.