[redhead]

"Seriously, that's Bush's brilliance. He gives his enemies more rope and more rope and more rope and they just tie it in a little noose and put it around their neck all by themselves. The Taliban, Saddam, the Democrats (here, I repeat myself). He does it every single time and nobody catches on."

Elegant strategery. I don't know where he learned to play it so well, but he has lured them out onto thin ice time after time. My mom used to say what you just said: "Give them enough rope, and they'll hang themselves."

[princess leah]

I was watching the history channel last night and they were talking about the change in the navy ships from wooden to iron and then all the offensive weaponry and 1 man in the 1880s stated that "America must not remain an isolist nation" "we need to defend America in an offensive manner which will require a full naval military"...within 2 decades we had overhauled our ships and become the 2nd largest navy in the world (behind England). This guy had the same philosophy as Bush does now - Pre-emptive offense to PROTECT the homeland and NOT be isolationist!