[island911]

Roland you have brought many wonderful insights to this board. For that, I consider what you have to say, and work hard to not let myself misunderstand the point(s) you are going for. Furthermore, out of respect, I am responding to your bait of your various posts.

1) Conspiracies etc. – The people who are in power in most countries get there in large part by riding an opportunistic wave driven by forming alliances through triangulation. Countries are made up of these people. They are not products of well run conspiracies.

2) consider that EVERY US President has been more powerful than hitler; in that EVERY US President has had nuclear capabilities. While Bush is using “good & evil” in a similar fashion I don’t see it will have traction with the American populous. Rather it will be seen as hyperbole.
Beyond the posturing involved, there are the pragmatics; the paramount being survival. Let me put it to you this way; if I am out hiking and anger a mountain lion by being in its’ territory, I may indeed be very wrong in the eyes of the lion, so much so it attacks or even postures to attack. At which point I will only focus on hitting that target. . . hard. This is the situation Bush and the American people are in. One can get into the minutiae of past events, and yet you can not ignore the recent events. The western culture is under attack, with the goal of complete elimination.