You are absolutely right, Nick-ster... It will require a "fairer" world...

The reason that the US won the Cold War was because it had a better story to tell... It was a better model... It was more just and more3 fair... Yes, inspite of Vietnam, the US put up the good fight to not allow it's values to backslide... It moved forward on civil rights, not because it was being forced upon it, but because it was the right thing to do... Yes, inspite of Vietnam, the US was respected...

If we are to win this War on Terror we will have to return to being the good guys, the country that tries it's danredness to create a good life for its people...

This is how the war can and should be fought...

We need to reinvent ourselve as a modern post 9/11 country that respects international law, respects it's own people's rights and sends out some good vibes... We are now lossing that war with the suspension of habeas corpus, the torturing and our senseless invasion and occupation of Iraq... We need to talk with our enemies without pre-conditions... We need to be honest brokers of peace...

But, yeah, we also need to do this in a time of extreme geo-political violence so we need to be vigilant...

I, fir one, don't hear this message in Hillary Clinton... I'd love to say I hear it in John Edwards but I don't... I do hear it in Obama, Dennis Kucinich and Bill Richardson...

The MLK book that I made refernce to si what it's all about when folks step to the plate and say, "The old stuff don't work no more... We need a change..." The name of that book, BTW, is "A Testament of Hope"...

I hear that in Michelle Obama's speech...

Bobert