Good for the Veep. He's a good troop.
You know, it sure is frustrating, if you take this terrorism problem seriously(I do). If the US leads this fight, and we do, then the rest of the world gets angry with us. If we had stayed home and did nothing, then the rest of the world would have accused us of goldbricking.
So, VP Cheney is quite right: The hope of the civilized world rides on our shoulders.
Cheney is right but wrong. The free world wants us to take the lead. But paradoxically they are so afraid of everything and so PC that they sway in the wind and won't follow.
Lawrence Eagleburger was on FOX just now. He was beside himself about Chirac taking the sanctions auction off the table. He said we have to understand that with allies like France it is very difficult for Bush to take the lead. He said that he thinks Bush is in a box for now and has no choice but to fall back to negotiations because our "allies" are so weak and perfidious. But he said he thinks Bush is still totally committed to not letting Iran get the bomb and will be forced to act alone.