We are seeing the last days of the weakest president in living memory. When the attacks of September 11 took place, he reminded me of a cat caught in a car's headlights. A strong president would have told the American people (and the world) that it is very difficult to track down terrorist cells. A strong president would have counselled patience and restraint. A strong president would have accepted the help of Arab nations to identify and apprehend the guilty parties. If ever there was a opportunity to win the confidence of the Arab world, that was it. Instead we got the "Send the Marines/You can run but you can't hide" Hollywood style jingoistic crap. And where has it got us? In fact the only way the situation could have been made worse was to go down the road of acting tough and making posturing declarations of revenge. Bush's band never considered anything else. Had one tenth of the resources, which have been squandered on war, been invested in alleviating the poverty, which gave a sewer for Al Kaida to fester in, the world would be have been a safer place by far.