President Bush is a victim of his own success. Everybody needs to put themselves back into their respective “9/11 Moment,” roughly mid-morning of September 11, 2001: if your neighbor had told you (1) the worst was over for the day (2) there would be no more successful attacks that week (3) there would be no more successful attacks that fall, including during the war in Afghanistan (4) that the Taliban would fall in and the terrorist training camps would be gone (5) that we would invade and succeed in Iraq, without further terrorist attacks, (6) that a semi-functioning democracy would be present in the Arab Middle East, and (7)we would lose less than soldiers/marines in accomplishing 1-6 than the number of people who died when the World Trade Center fell, not a single sane person would have believed that possible, and certainly not possible from the President Bush we knew on September 10.

Yet hear we are, with people like Kaus out of breath, and ready to quit because their sides hurt alittle bit. Way to go Mickey: you’re a real profile in courage.