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Robert — (archived)

I've said before that I think demanding that anyone critical of the Bush approach come up with a better one is a red herring. I'm not the President, you're not the President...in fact, to take this to its logical conclusion, you can't take credit for coming up with the Bush approach, so why demand that somebody else come up with a better approach?

It is legitimate to ask whether someone with access to all that the US government knows and who wields all of its powers could come up with something better. As I was observing above, the solutions that Bush and his team could envision are preconditioned by their ideology. Would a President less fearful of international organizations perhaps be open to a more effective solution that involved international cooperation? I'm suggesting that we think outside the box of conservative ideology, so maybe it's unfair to be asking the question of a conservative.

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