[jaguar]

Frankly, I think it's great. The US's response to the WTC attack alienated traditional allies and gave a litany of new reasons for your arabs to take up arms against the great satan. If a measured, well thought out non knee-jerk-lets-kill-the-filthy-towelheads-unless-they-sell-us-cheap-oil approach is taken, great.

Good to see democracy in action in Spain, kicking out a leader who entered into your war against the wishes of 90% of his population. Looks like Howard will go in australia too for lying to the people so he could get his tongue a bit further up bush's ass.

Nor for that matter has any true progress been made in the war on terror, sure the-terrorist-group-formerly-known-as-al-queda may be in a bit of a shambles but it's merely been diversified to hundreds of smaller, more distributed, harder to track groups. When the hell will people learn you can't stop ideas with bombs.

Little or nothing has been done to address the underlying issues behind the popular rise of islamofacism in the Middle East and elsewhere and no matter how many captured 'leaders' your government displays to the world to garner a few more votes, the attacks won't stop.

The problem with shotguns is they hit everything indiscriminately.