"The fact is that we are not “at war” in the way the framers of our Constitution understood that concept when they wrote the document. We are engaged in a different enterprise entirely, one that overlaps only a little with war as it has been traditionally — and politically — understood. More than any well-honed constitutional theory, it seems to me, this simple distinction hacks the legs out from under the assertions of executive privilege in wartime being made today."
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Pages and pages of this BS article - written just to knock Bush! See his last sentence above. The writer doesn't belong with the Hoover Institute.
"Attend to identity.
Attend to the global economy.
Practice the greatest restraint possible in foreign policy.
Avoid humiliating others.
Do not become the focus of the alienation.
Crush the true extremists."
Actually, this article must have been the basis for Bill's failed policy: be nice to the Third World nutcases to soothe their "humiliation" at being ignorant and dysfunctional. Never respond to their provocations and attacks. Accept a certain level of losses of our own people and changes to our system as a result of their attacks. Ignore Islamic radicalism, it's just a symptom.
The very policy that brought us 9/11, in fact...and sadly, the policy that still seems to be in place at the State Dept.