[ArGee]

What Bush should have said would have been something like "We will do what we can to convince what friends we have in the world ..."

I don't have time to do your entire comment justice. However, this phrase suggests you don't understand the important difference between leadership and diplomacy. As you noted, the Presidency is a position of leadership. Bush's version of "move it or lose it" was exactly what was needed and produced some valuable results that your more "nuanced" version would never have produced, and it was urgent enough that the results were achieved in the short time he was in office. There may be unforseen ramifications, but there are always those, even in "nuanced" pronouncements.

I'm glad he did it the way he did. We needed a "no more mister nice guy" talk from the top.

Shalom.

[Pelayo]

So in other words, you agree with the nature of what I said just not the conclusions.

I submit that the real reason your conclusions are different is that, based upon you last post, it made you feel good to hear him take the "no more mister nice guy" approach, regardless of whether he meant follow it up or not.

[Paul_Denton]

I'm glad he did it the way he did. We needed a "no more mister nice guy" talk from the top.

Same here. And it is true. There is no room for neutrality in this war.