Bush has said more than once that Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas are his favorite justices. But for tax cuts to stimulate economic activity quickly and efficiently they should go to people who will spend the extra money.
In any event, not one of the detainees has been convicted of anything resembling a terrorist act.
In a second Bush term, the Court could be remade in their images.
But for tax cuts to stimulate economic activity quickly and efficiently they should go to people who will spend the extra money. But Kerry has been keeping the issue alive since he first raised it Sept. American military deaths have mounted to more than a thousand, a number that underplays the real level of suffering: among the eight thousand wounded are many who have been left seriously maimed. As observers, reporters, and commentators we will hold him to the highest standards of honesty and performance. 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.
In any event, not one of the detainees has been convicted of anything resembling a terrorist act.
There is surely idealistic purpose in envisioning a Middle East finally relieved of its autocracies and dictatorships. The Taliban has regrouped in eastern and southern regions. Wade is two justices removed from reversal. In a time of primitive partisanship, he has exhibited a fundamentally undogmatic temperament. Nowhere has his solipsism been more damaging than in the case of Iraq.
American military deaths have mounted to more than a thousand, a number that underplays the real level of suffering: among the eight thousand wounded are many who have been left seriously maimed. 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.
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. But Kerry spokesman Mike McCurry stood by the statement. The toll of Iraqi dead and wounded is of an order of magnitude greater than the American. In a second Bush term, the Court could be remade in their images.
And for many voters the desire to see the damage arrested is reason enough to vote for John Kerry.
The first two of these assumptions have been shown to be entirely baseless.
The arrests have continued, but eventually the Administration simply stopped saying how many people were and are being held. At least as reprehensible is the way that foreign nationals living in the United States have been treated. He lives and works within a self-created bubble of faith-based affirmation.
Many of its provisions, such as allowing broader information-sharing among investigative agencies, are sensible. And for many voters the desire to see the damage arrested is reason enough to vote for John Kerry.
Before this war, we had persuaded ourselves and the world that our military might was effectively infinite.
Troops from Britain, France, Germany, Canada, Italy, Norway, and Spain are serving alongside Americans in Afghanistan to this day.
In a second Bush term, the Court could be remade in their images.
Jobs, health care, education, and the rest may not count for much when weighed against the prospect of large-scale terrorist attack.
That insistence is a measure of his character.
Many of its provisions, such as allowing broader information-sharing among investigative agencies, are sensible. Throughout his entire life Bush has gladly watched others go off to war for him, first in Vietnam and now in Iraq.