Hey, Lindy...
We may disagree on a lot, but I do admire your patience...you get blasted a lot (including that one unwarrented bit of nastiness from me...sorry 'bout that, btw).
I guess I don't see Bush as throwing away diplomatic relations or international law...rather, he's reshaping them, as has been done countless times in the past.
We live is such a dangerous world that simply waiting for a potential enemy to attack is to invite disaster. A pro-active approach, though it may be mistaken for "looking for trouble," might actually be the only way to avert a much larger catastrophe.
my 2 cents--which, as I've said before, is probably more than it's worth.