[Thunder90]

In the next 5-15 years, there will be revolutions that make the democratization at the end of the Cold War seem tame in comparasion. We are talking about Chinese Perestroika, Russian Perestroika round 2, the fall of socialism in Latin America (Give it time, it will fail) and the fall of islamofascism. This is why the governments in question are arming so much. They know that they have only one shot at us and then it is over (if it fails).

[Whitebread]

I agree with you completely, and admire a "fellow traveler" with such optimism for the future. Within our life time, I have confidence, humanity to shrug the chains of opression. Freedom is the natural state of man and GW Bush will become revered like Regan. Like all revolutionaries GW Bush pays the price in the short term, while history will judge the long term.