[Verginius Rufus]

...The current indiscriminate killing was a strategic mistake. It is a sign of desperation and can only unite the global community in its belief that terrorism, suicide murdering, and the agents of rogue regimes realy do constitute a nexus of opposition to the forces of civilization...

I think Professor Hanson is too optimistic. He ignores the obsessive hatred of the American and European Left for President Bush...they would gladly sabotage the American efforts to combat terrorism if it would make Bush's re-election in 2004 less likely.

Remember State Department official J. Brady Kiesling's letter of resignation last February: "this Administration has chosen to make terrorism a domestic political tool, enlisting a scattered and largely defeated Al Qaeda as its bureaucratic ally."

[Rockitz]

I believe this quote posted by eyespysomething may appropriately identify the American and European Left for what they are....

"A nation can survive its fools and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and he carries his banners openly against the city. But the traitor moves among those within the gates freely, his sly whispers rustling through all alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears no traitor; he speaks in the accents familiar to his victim, and he wears their face and their garments and he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation; he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of a city; he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to be feared. The traitor is the plague."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Orator - 106-43 B.C.