the 1993 attack on the World Trade Center, the 1998 destruction of two U.S. embassies in Africa, the 2000 attack on the U.S.S. Cole. The limp and feckless American reaction to these acts of war--a token cruise missile here, a showy indictment there, empty threats everywhere--only reinforced the radical Islamic conviction that America was a paper tiger, fat and decadent, leader of a civilization grown weak and cowardly and ripe for defeat.
They took the concept of “representative” democracy a little too literally.
The fat, decadent, weak and cowardly leader was an aberration, whose time has passed.
........not if Hitlery or Dash-hole finds their way into the White House in 2004. LOL.