[expatguy]

Lets not get ahead of ourselves now shall we. You speak of the successes - and that is all fine and dandy - but from my perspective I see a growing weakness. A weakness that is acting to embolden our enemies.

The War in Iraq is only one issue - But overall I see A nation and a people falling all over themselves to accommodate and appease their adversaries.

What do you think countries like China and Russia are thinking?

For Christ's sake we don't even have the courage to name our enemy - what is this "War on Terrorism" crap? What message do you think we send to "the world" when we make it clear that our hands are bound by political correctness?

There are a lot of factors in play here.

An American Expat in Southeast Asia

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

Your points are well taken — and the article doesn’t contradict them.

The irony is that the WOT (or whatever it should be called) has been so successful at keeping immediate threats away, that people have been lulled into a false sense of security. Democrats, and their ilk in other countries, have convinced themselves that there is no actual threat — or that everything done in the name of security has the opposite effect.

The world is probably in for a rude awakening in 2008.