Posted by Sigismund on January 4, 2009, at 0:08:33
In reply to Re: The view from outside, posted by fayeroe on January 3, 2009, at 20:49:29
>"I'm the war President".
But then he encouraged the American people to go shopping.
So it is a certain understanding of being a war president.
My guess is that the certainty he felt was bound up with his religious faith and that he felt he was smiting the ungodly.
The ungodly it is of course uncivil to describe, because they proceed from the sump of our unconscious, but I will take a stab at it by describing them as the turbanned riffraff, which explains at least as much about us as them and might explain why the Middle East is in the state it is.
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