The noble cause is for intenational consumption, not ours.
He is indeed protecting the american people, but he also has an international audience to preach to.
He is attempting to be isolationist without causing too many international rifts.
I say, Damn good job!
Oh, please, that means absolutely nothing to the "full steam ahead" group.
Out of the U.N.? Imagine a body sitting in NYC passing resolution after resolution trying to destroy this country and Israel and us not sitting at the table with a veto!
That is "their" dream world!
He is indeed protecting the american people, but he also has an international audience to preach to.
He is attempting to be isolationist without causing too many international rifts.
Granted that such things as the economy and soothing over the ruffled feathers of a few has-been countries like France and Russia are part of the President's job. But, his A number one priority is doing everything that he can to prevent American citizens, which includes our brave fighting men and women, from coming to unnecessary harm from a foreign threat.
If Dubya were half the President that Reagan was, he would win the war in the quickest and most efficient manner possible, without adding to the risk that our troops already face by trying to be politically correct and then worry about patting Chirac and Putin on the head after it's all over. As for the Arab world, they hate us anyway and nothing that we do in Iraq will change that. But perhaps, if we didn't act so politically correct and actually won the war in a military manner, they just might learn to fear us.
As I said above, with the technology that we have today, we can measure the load and target so well that we could take out a valid military target, such as a missile launcher that threatens our pilots, with such accuracy that even if it were located in the middle of a daycare center, very few Iraqi civilians would die in the process. That's limiting collateral damage. But, to completely ignore such a valid military target, for no better reason than a few Iraqi civilians might be killed, is not limiting collateral damage. It's gross incompetence... or worse.
It's a matter of priorities and Dubya has his priorities all turned around. As much as I hate to have to admit it, it looks like, rather than doing the right thing for America and her troops, Dubya is pulling a klinton, by trying to build his legacy, at the expense of our brave fighting men and women.
It's time for Dubya to forget about his legacy and pull the plug on politically correct warfare and turn the war over to the professionals,... before his legacy costs the lives of any more of our soldiers.