Both were terrorist attacks and the perpetrators of both terrorist attacks should be brought to justice.
This extraordinary outpouring provided Bush with a second opportunity to create something like a government of national unity. However, nobody in Washington expects them to go away on schedule; they were designated as temporary only to make their ultimate results look less scary. Their avowals of good faith would be more reassuring if their record were not otherwise so troubling. The Taliban has regrouped in eastern and southern regions. While Bush has pandered relentlessly to the narrowest urges of his base, Kerry has sought to appeal broadly to the American center.
Some of the money that has been pumped into it has been leached from other education programs, dozens of which are slated for cuts next year.
But when his foes sought to destroy him rather than to debate him they found no scandals and no evidence of bad faith in his past.
That insistence is a measure of his character.
At the time, there was a lot of talk about what to do with the anticipated bounty, a discussion that now seems antique. There is surely idealistic purpose in envisioning a Middle East finally relieved of its autocracies and dictatorships. There is surely idealistic purpose in envisioning a Middle East finally relieved of its autocracies and dictatorships.
Some of the reaction to that law has been excessive.
Some of the reaction to that law has been excessive. Warlords control much of Afghanistan outside the capital of Kabul, which is the extent of the territorial writ of the decent but beleaguered President Hamid Karzai. This extraordinary outpouring provided Bush with a second opportunity to create something like a government of national unity. The arrests have continued, but eventually the Administration simply stopped saying how many people were and are being held.
Al Qaeda, previously an insignificant presence in Iraq, is an important one now.
He lives and works within a self-created bubble of faith-based affirmation. Because of the way the votes were distributed, however, the outcome in the electoral college turned on the outcome in Florida. But the challenger has more to offer than the fact that he is not George W.
The United States has become mired in a low-intensity guerrilla war that has taken more lives since the mission was declared to be accomplished than before.
He boasts that he listens to no outside advisers, and inside advisers who dare to express unwelcome views are met with anger or disdain.
Many of its provisions, such as allowing broader information-sharing among investigative agencies, are sensible.