I find it amazing that you guys follow your leaders around, listening to their rhetoric, yet failing to see where they've been completely wrong or incompetent.
Let's say I had a son Johnny who came home with a bloodied nose and told me that our neighbour Sam had done it. In my outrage, I decided to join Johnny and go after Sam to whup his ass and seek revenge. When I got there, there was no evidence that Sam had done it. I hit him anyway and left him to fend for himself.
Later, I found out Johnny lied to me. It wasn't really Sam's fault. Johnny had been doing some underhanded business with other neighbours and was getting ready to get caught at it, hence he bloodied his own nose and pointed his finger at our closest neighbour to avoid any heat coming down on him.

Now, you may not like all this hemming and hawing, but their are parallels within our government for this. These "other neighbours" are still around, and are seeking vengeance, for us pounding Sam.
Some quotes from the NY Times:
>"The administration's antiterror campaign makes me think of the way television studios really look. The fancy set usually sits in the middle of a shabby room, full of cardboard and duct tape. Networks take great care with what viewers see on their TV screens; they spend as little as possible on anything off camera.
I've written before about the Bush administration's amazing refusal to pay for even minimal measures to protect the nation against future attacks — measures that would secure ports, chemical plants, nuclear facilities and so on.
That leaves us facing exactly the dilemma war skeptics feared. If we leave Iraq quickly it may well turn into a bigger, more dangerous version of Afghanistan. But if we stay for an extended period we risk becoming, as one commentator put it, "an occupying power in a bitterly hostile land" — just the recruiting tool Al Qaeda needs. Who said that? President George H. W. Bush, explaining his decision not to go on to Baghdad back in 1991."

Well, if hindsight is 20/20 vision, no wonder millions of people saw this disaster looming ahead. We went from a relatively peaceful world into one full of stinging scorpions. Instead of taking time to rebuild talks and negotiations with semi-friendly or semi-hostile nations, we have now alienated them from us, and our mutual attempts to stop international terrorism and sabotage.
Too many underhanded schemes and politicians.
It's a raw, explosive mix now; and it will be much harder to fix.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/16/opinion/16KRUG.html