[Ronaldus Magnus]

There's a difference between compromise and surrender on important domestic issues.

Exactly. An example of this was President Reagan's courageous stand in Reykjavik, Iceland. Against all of his advisors advice, he walked away rather than compromise the SDI initiative. Mikel Gorbachev later said that it was at that moment that he realized that the Soviet Empire was over.

[livius]

And Bush went into Iraq, after winning the commitments of the members of both houses (pity the Dems seem to have forgotten that fact now!), and opposing the world, the UN and, worst of all, the press. The result will be a changed Middle East, and the ultimate decline of terrorism - not overnight, but then, the USSR didn't fall overnight, either.