Gorby’s hit the nail on the head (although Putin’s verbal backslap to Dick Cheney was a nail in the coffin). America lately, like Burger King, wants to have it their way. That isn’t possible. What amazes me is when the so-called coalition forces invaded Iraq that none of them spoke fluent Arabic! How could they know what is going on if they can’t effectively communicate with the people they are “liberating”.

The Bush Administration, third-stringers who think they’re all-stars, are way out of their league in today’s World Series. Jim Hightower said of Mr. Bush, he was born on third base and thinks he hit a triple. To keep his delusion alive, he’s surrounded himself with people who will never challenge it. The results are self-evident.

“Shallow,” that is exactly the word.  There are all the others; arrogant, criminal, sleazy, underhanded and on and on but shallow says it all--about both character and strategy.  As Rumafeld said, “things happen.” Shallower than that you would be walking on dry land.

There will be peace in the world when we all stop seeing each other as enemies in a global struggle for power and begin to consider we are all partners trying to survive together on space station Earth.

Exactly--just someone else for the right to blow off as irrelevant.  It’s truly pathetic that we cannot listen to anyone’s opinion but our own.

Words of wisdom on America’s imperial hubris from Gorby that I’m sure will go in one ear and out the other of Bush and Cheney, the etam that can never be wrong even when they’re worng. Love their flip-flop on Gitmo.