"If we're an arrogant nation, they'll resent us."

[Brotherjohn]

That line was from the second Gore-Bush Presidential Debate on October 11, 2000. It was in response to a question about how America should project it power in the world.

That arrogance was on full display in George W. Bush's speech to the U.N. today, just as it has been for his entire administration. That resentment was obvious by the reception he received, and has received on the international front for the past 5 years. He has governed in a way that has exacerbated old resentments, and created new ones, against America and its interests. The results are broken alliances, a less stable Mid-East, increased terrorism, car-bombs, war, death, destruction, and mayhem. It has also resulted in a war against a "tactic", with no end in sight... a made-to-order recruiting tool for Osama Bin Laden... and an Al Qaeda that has grown and become a multi-headed "hydra" that may now plague us well beyond the forseeable future (despite the "War on Terror").

Yes, the speaker of those words was right. "If we're an arrogant nation, they'll resent us." We HAVE been arrogant and they DO resent us.

I suppose if the speaker of those words were to utter them today, Bush, Cheney and cohorts would accuse him of "giving comfort to the enemy" or "enabling the terrorists".

That is, of course, if the speaker of those words had not been one George W. Bush.

[Captain Hilts]

1. What happened to our "humble" foregin policy? nt

[Demeter]

2. IF?