"More recently, Republicans took Bill Clinton, another Democrat, to the woodshed for his involvement in ending ethnic cleansing by Serbs in Bosnia and Kosovo and in nation-building in Somalia. Bush himself, lest we forget, won election in 2000 with a campaign that condemned Clinton's overseas adventure and promised to steer clear of "nation-building." Now Bush, if he's leveling with us, has committed his administration and his party to the most ambitious bit of nation-building ever undertaken -- the eradication of tyranny everywhere. Nation-building with a vengeance. It's a noble goal, make no mistake. We have to wish him well. But whether it's doable raises two troubling questions: Will he get any help from abroad? And if not, can we afford the cost (not to mention the global hostility) of trying to do it alone? The fact that there was no mention of 9/11 and the legitimate resultant change in US foreign policy makes me question if this is an intellectually honest article.
Any worries about "global hostility" which I presume he means Europe,while we begin to cure the wound of radical islam that started festering 25+ years ago is of no concern to me.
Countries that consider a weaker US as being in their best interest should not be much bothered with.
We were attacked,we are fighting back and I am glad we have a President who has the vision to realize that a stable democratic middle east is not only a benefit to us but to the rest of the world including the whiners from "old Europe".