“Some people in the United States were rather delighted that it (the attacks) mobilized the entire country and focused on a single enemy, which we’d been demonizing for quite some time — the Muslim world. He [Bush] wants this to go on forever. He said to Congress after 9/11: ‘It’s going to be a long war’. He was thrilled.” – Gore Vidal on the BBC World Service.
BUSH REBOUND? Has the Iraq debate halted Bush’s polling slide? And hurt Democrats’ chances in November? Ipsos-Reid sees some evidence for it, although the Dems still have a clear edge.
MUST READ: “The hostility which these regimes, and the terrorists they sponsor, feel towards the West is existential. It cannot be assuaged by more international aid, a reordering of the world financial system, a new peace plan for the Palestinians, the signing of the Kyoto treaty or any other of the panaceas for soothing away world tension peddled by the new Left or old Arabists. As with Nazis and the Communists, they hate us for what we are, not what we do. And that hatred, being molten, is dynamic. It cannot be limited by lines in the sand, or constrained by diplomacy. Just as it is in the nature of totalitarians to hate so it is endemic to them to attack, to expand, to export their violence.” – Michael Gove in the Times (of London) today.
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