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Let us get this straight. We cannot know if Bush prevented any attacks at all; but (although we have nothing concrete to point to) “[Bush’s] actions have very likely increased the likelihood of future attacks from a still active al-Qaeda and perhaps others who have become enemies of America because of his decisions (if they were his decisions).”

To support this conjecture, Stoner goes into the same tedious series of speculations we’ve heard over and over again since the first Marine put his boots on the ground to put Osama in harms way. I suppose they think that if they say it enough it just has to be true.

So to reiterate our lesson: in the absence of evidence, we can’t say Bush prevented any terrorist attacks on American soil -- in the absence of evidence, we must conclude the likelihood of future attacks on American soil have worsened.
-- Mike Dooley

P.S. We appreciate Mr. Stoner’s insistence on qualifying Bush’s actions with such phases as “if they were his decisions,” “if they were his actions” and “if it was his.” It is nice Mr. Stoner keeps an open mind as to the possibility “it” really wasn’t Bush’s fault. Christian charity is a wonderful thing.

HOPEFUL SIGNS
Re: George Neumayr's The Day After:

Now more than ever liberalism is defined as the pursuit of interest group power. Take heart, like the greedy protons drawn to a nuclear core, their inherent opposition to each other will cause the explosion apart. The coalition is fraught with contradictions: hedonism vs. state control, ethnic assertion vs. hedonism, global trade vs. protectionism, unions vs enviromentalism, etc.  After the detonation and disconsolation, the conservative verities will endure as before. Our best days are still ahead.
-- Timothy O'Neill
Pompano Beach, Florida

HALF-HEARTED MACHIAVELLIANS
Re: Jeremy Lott's Machiavelli's Revenge:

So Bush and Rice started a war and invaded a country and then worried that they would be too Machiavellian! How did people so stupid get so far? No wonder events turned out the way they did.
-- Christopher Holland
Canberra, Australia