More from the people who don’t operate in the reality-based world
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posted 1:19 PM
Bush emphasizes force of will -- determination to prosecute the enemy, and equally to stand up to allies who disapprove. Bush and his aides most often deflect questions about recent global polls that have found sharply rising anti-U.S. sentiment in Arab and Muslim countries and in Europe, but one of them addressed it in a recent interview. Speaking for the president by White House arrangement, but declining to be identified, a high-ranking national security official said of the hostility detected in surveys: "I don't think it matters. It's about keeping the country safe, and I don't think that matters."Yes, that's right. Attitudes that may lead to radicalizing people into terrorism don't matter. That's reality-based logic. Read the entire WaPo article which essentially confirms (what John Kerry and others have been saying) that the war in Iraq has been diversion from the war on terrorism and that war is not going well.
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