TTR, if you can find a way to induce your millions of voters to recognise, and discuss, the issues in a manner similar to our present debate, without descending to personal recrimination, then there is hope of a return to the American ideal.

Nothing worth having was ever achieved by a schoolyard slanging match.

However, the sticking point is still the fact that GW holds his current position as a result of financial support, and media spin, rather than by merit and capability, and it is the refusal of his republican voters to recognise that the job is too big for him, that allows him to take a destructive course, without being held to account.

The cynical disregard for the needs of the less well off in your country are a disgrace to a nation which once believed in equality, and freedom for all.

However popular he may be, your citizens are suffering as a result of his devotion to the corporate success of his financial backers, and that is not what the job is supposed to be about.

GW is said by his apologists to be merely the fall guy, manipulated by shadowy puppet masters in the background, as though that absolves him of responsibility for the current state of the Union.

If that is the truth, maybe one might expect him to rebel, or resign. That he does neither indicates to me that he is in agreement with the policies of those manipulators, and that their policies are his policies too.

Having recognised that running the USA is beyond his capabilities, one might be more than a little worried that he has added to those duties the policing of large portions of the world beyond your national borders.

When , and only when, his supporters recognise these limitations, it will be possible to seek ways to remedy the situation. I only hope it will not come too late to avoid bankruptcy for the world's largest democracy.

Don T.