[dasboot]

Yeah Ron, the Republic's , and we shouldn't get entangled in foreign stuff; but geez!

Pirates are attackin' us here and over there (with the help of those subversive commies who ended the Republic in the first place); and if we don't get busy hangin' some of 'em, there might not be an American Democracy to re-Repulicanize!

[EBUCK]

I don't think that Ron (and I certainly don't) thinks we should just bend over and take it from the pirates. It's just that Bush has gone to great lengths to skirt the Constitution and that sets a dangerous tone for future administrations......But, I'm still reading thru it so I could be wrong.