Catherine -

“He thinks George Bush’s transformation policy is horrifically dangerous.”

Danerous how? Is he upset that this policy will somehow accentuate the anger of people who have no problem with suicide as a strategy…or is it primarily that we as a nation will be killing boatloads of such people for the foreseeable future? I contend that dead terrorists, deposed regimes, and madly fleeing mullahs are at the very least the necessary first steps in attempting to overturn epochs of tribalism and militant Islamic fundamentalism.

The Iranians can laugh at the U.N. all they want. I don’t hear them laughing at the Bush Doctrine. Khaddafi didn’t. Mushareff didn’t.

I demand my government protect my family, in accordance with the sworn duties of elected office. Whether we are loved, merely respected, or feared in a trickle-down-the-leg manner by other nations or peoples is their affair.

I can’t seem to have a reasoned discussion on this subject, be it here on the web or at a bus stop. The base proposition of an opponent seems to be “killing is a bad thing, so we shouldn’t do it”. I’m all for diplomatic solutions but I recognise that there is a time where talk is just not an option, either for people or nations.

Please treat the above as a rhetorical question; I, too, am well aware of sensitive subjects inside of marriage, and when not to bring them up.