[TheHound]

Dah.

[The Great Satan]

Like Ronald Reagan, Bush's air of nonchalance is deceiving. Without breaking a sweat, he put the threat of Saddam squarely on the table and, slowly but surely, bent others to his will.

It doesn't impress me much that Bush isn''t breaking a sweat. The United States is, by a very wide margin, the most powerful nation on earth -- militarily, the most powerful nation in human history. What I find more noteworthy is that Saddam Hussein isn't breaking a sweat, even though the most powerful man on earth has publicly targeted him for destruction. Not only is he not breaking a sweat, but he is still publicly endorsing the 9/11 attacks and praising the leadership of the supposed mastermind of that operation, Osama bin Laden. Now that is interesting, isn't it?

[gcruse]

 ...but this time the United States won't be diddled.

     <Snort>  David Gergen, erstwhile Clinton aide,
      rides the rhetoric rocket right to the bottom.