Diplomats and Military Commanders for Change

Who is Tom Clancy?!? Was that a serious question? I must say that I find the people who post here to be a pretty intelligent, well informed group. Yet for all that, someone can still ask who Tom Clancy is. I don't mean to put anyone down here, no disrespect intended, etc. But if an intelligent American can ask that question, then how can one expect the average American voter to understand the far more arcane issue of the havoc George Jr. is wrecking for this country abroad? Its discouraging, really it is.

A minor point: "And Americans overseas really cannot continue to be so unpopular as they have been only for the past couple of years." Try being an American in Latin America in the late sixties and early seventies when Vietnam was raging and the CIA had just assasinated the democratically elected president of Chile, Salvadore Allende. Complete strangers would stop me on the street in the city in Brazil where I was staying at the time, and treat me to invectives against Johnson and Nixon and hold me personally responsible for American foreign policy. We have been well hated before, my friend, and we will continue to be.