"Finally the Nicaraguan voters were ground down by all this and understandably gave up and voted for a quiet life, in face of threats by the USA if they kept voting Sandanista" ...and under Bush's enlightened attitude toward Nicaragua, they felt comfortable putting Ortega back in power? The fact that the people COULD vote out the Sandinistas speaks volumes about what they accomplished. Not a strong argument for the Chavez-Castro School of Demagoguery in that comment.

As for Bush following Mussolini's tenets, he sure accomplished 1 and 2, and took a good crack at three, but our system is resilient enough to prevent further damage.

I believe the US needs to overhaul many of the ways in which we deal with the world, that our system is flawed but repairable. Maybe some of you would suggest we need a good socialist strong-man to fix it, but I disagree.