[ellery]

Rewarding friends and punishing enemies is the ESSENCE of diplomacy. It is fundamental to our national interests that we act in a way that will encourage other countries to side with us, rather than against us. The anti-war folks who wanted to rely on diplomacy rather than force should be applauding this.

[Southack]

"The anti-war folks who wanted to rely on diplomacy rather than force should be applauding this."

Except that being "anti-war" was simply a facade. They never really *meant* that they were anti-war (after all, they applauded Clinton's regime change via U.S. Marines in Haiti, and they were silent about Clinton and Chiraq's war on Serbia four years ago), they simply wanted Joe Sixpack in Flyover Country to think that they had noble intentions for attacking President Bush.