Greg, it is obvious that you don't have a clue what those words mean. For example:

Paranoia: I'm not afraid of anything that breathes, though I might give some things a bit more personal space. And I'm unaware f anything I have written in any thread that would indicate that condition.

Low-self esteem: Me??? I think you've smoked too many joints without a helmet.

Inflexibility: Though I have written many things on many subjects, I think that when you find a conservative who advocates for women's choice (the only person I know who has sticked a Catholic priest to the pavement for pouring blood on a young girl arriving at an abortion clinic) and for reasonable gun controls (ie assualt weapons ban), that is pretty flexible, and certainally more so than any of your bretheren.

Arrogance: Again, have you noted the mite in your eye for even asking the question?

Other sociopathologic indicators: As Marine Corps Officer with a Top Secret clearance, a police officer with 18 years experience (10 as a hostage negotiator), and as an Emergency Manager with EMSHG (no you don't get to find out) I have been evaluated many times prior to taking those positions. I am very secure in my skin. It is patently obvious you can make no such claim...


As for my kids, many of them do write or call during some time after they leave... even the ones who end up in jail...


And Gillette, I seem to recall that our last President regarded that area as a humidor...

Now Amos (unlike the others) you do raise an interesting thought, but it is my feeling after spending some time with the Jordanians, for example, (who hate the Palestinians after Black Seprtember) that once the economic and political situations are focused on the indiviual countries, the Palestinians will actually lose support for their cause. And that may not be such a bad thing, as it may force them to become a bit more flexibile than Arafat exhibited during the final days of the Clinton presidency. And while some of the Iraqis have had demonstrations for a given religious leader to invoke the shia or religious law, the vast number who have spoken in public, or been surveyed in polls, do not indicate a desire to become another Iran. (Which appears to be headed out of that form of government, on it's own.) All in all, the fact that Bush was able to percieve the Gordonian knot that is the Middle East, and take action to cut it, was a masterstroke.