There are consequences to actions and Israel, justifiably, showed what happens when you kidnap its soldiers and start bombing it’s towns.

The Lebanese, having tasted a limited form of democracy, don’t want a
return to the days of being ruled by Syria and Iran, through
Hezbollah. Lebanon needs the west’s help to counter the Mafia that is
Hezbollah, just as the Palestinian’s need Israel to do the dirty work
in ridding their culture of Hamas -- just as the Iraqi’s and
Afghani’s need America’s help to rid themselves of those who would
have them living the miserable lives they did under Saddam Hussein
and the Taliban. I wish more countries of the world (hello, France,
Russia, China, Germany?) would put commit a sizable number of troops
to put down the threats of Islamic radicalism because it's a
worldwide phenomenon. I’m not holding my breath. The dirty work has
always been on the shoulders of the United States and that’s why
President Bush and his team deserve major kudos for their handling
of the world, post 9/11. Freedom isn’t free and that’s proving itself
in Iraq, But with patience, and perhaps, some more boots on the
ground, Iraq will be democratic and safe in time. 15 million Iraqi's,
who voted three times for candidates and a constitution want
democracy and freedom. Who wouldn't?

Of course, not if the Left in America has anything to do with it. The
juxtaposition of anti-war candidate Ned Lamont’s victory over pro-
Iraq engagement, Senator Joe Leiberman, with the foiled terrorist
plot in Britain, underscores the vapidity of the Left’s view that
Bush provoked it. Terror on a grand scale can be dialed back, in
recent times, to the Beirut massacre of 241 American soldiers by
Hezbollah: how did Reagan (president at the time) provoke that? He
didn’t. The Left: inane, as usual.=

Yes, I feel quite proud of President Bush. More than ever, in fact. All the tens of millions of human beings that will taste the delicious fruits of freedom have President Bush to thank.

Still feel the same way about Bush? I think you're it. As in, the only one.

I'm a republican, so it's not that I disagree with you, it's that I find your tone STRANGE.

Benedict,

It sounds like you're dumbfounded that I could actually believe the things I write, but I do. You have every right to diagree and I respect that.

I've just spent the past half hour reading your posts on Huffington's site (why you left the left, Tommy Franks for president), the Ramsey-Bin Laden article, and this post... You come off like a media prankster posing as a Republican; there's a strange lack of authenticity to your arguments. Are you posing as someone obsessed with deriding the left as some sort of performance art piece? I know that sounds strange, but I'm serious, that's what I found myself wondering.