Posted on 10/09/2001 11:53:58 PM PDT by JohnHuang2
Edited on 07/12/2004 3:35:38 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
On Sunday, the bombs finally started flying in retaliation for the terrorist attacks on the United States. What a relief. Almost a month had gone by, and some of us had started to wonder whether all this coalition building was going to become an end in itself, a grand edifice constructed by the State Department as a monument to its diplomatic skills. In the event, it was the United States and our trusty ally Great Britain who unleashed the strikes on military and terrorist targets in Afghanistan, to general applause around the world. The Bush administration warns that there may be strikes against other countries as well. After years of watching terrorists elude justice, it is grand to see a president willing to fight back. Since Sept. 11, we have watched Mr. Bush grow in stature day by day, a man who knows his destiny. If he is successful in the war against terrorism, Mr. Bush will actually be leaving a real, historic legacy when he departs the White House.
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I think that everyone has by now come to the same realization.
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