You are absolutely right!

I've no doubt this will draw the moonbats out of their anarchic dens to decry you.

Fernandez, San Francisco,

So you are saying, in effect, that George W Bush didn't kick enough ass? Who are you encouraging - the Islamofascists or the neocons? It appears to be that we have now nothing to choose between the two, and the rest of the world is lumbered with two stags locking horns during the rutting season. I for one will back neither and say a plague on both their houses. This article looks like an oblique request to do Iran, a call to arms, a flattening of Iran for daring to do what the US and the UK have done for years; possess nuclear weapons and threaten other countries (but not Israel). I'm sorry but I have no more desire to be ruled by US-style 'democracy' and so-called free-market economics than I do being dictated to by some so-called Muslim 'holy warrior'. George Bush has done enough damage already, not only in the Middle East, but in Africa too. Please don't encourage him any further.

Bob Ericson, Tewkesbury Glos,

Stephen Rothbart, Prague, Czech Republic

Mr Rothbart, can I copy and paste your words in as many blogs as I can here in the United States?

I do not think any of us Americans ( I do not know if you are one) could put so much meaning into so few words, so can I, can I, please, please, please (now I am begging...).

I will paste it giving you credit.

Thank you

The Enforcer, Port Chester, NY, USA

I wonder how much the Iraqi war was about saving the credibility of the United Nation as an institution. A nation that will not secure its borders will stop being a nation. A political institution which cannot enforce its dictates becomes a joke. The United Nations had become a long running joke to Saddam because he was buying off UN ministers. His friends in France, Germany and Russia were well on the way to overturning sanctions.

I wonder if this war was a good use of President Bush's political capital after 9/11. Is the United Nations worth saving? Proceeding to war to enforce UN sanctions against Saddam seems foolhardy. This war made America no friends, even at the UN.

Partly, this is because many people resent a victorious America. They want us weak and willing to do their bidding. They want us to give up sovereignty, not export our economy and culture. The tyrants of the world are self limiting. An exultant America would not be. Many people will hate it when we win in Iraq.

Louis wheeler, Reno, Nevada/ USA

Good, concise analysis of the impact of Bush’s adventures in foreign policy. It’s an assessment I see and hear more of lately in the U.S. media, one that gives one hope. My greatest fear has been that we would have to actually experience multilateralism and the Democrat vision of foreign policy before its weaknesses and folly would be revealed, hopefully before we were all blown to bits, but the tide seems to be turning. Bush, of whom I am not a great admirer, must be given credit for “hanging tough” in the face of horrific opposition and vile personal attacks.

Joan, Virginia, USA

Joan Lewis, Arlington, Virginia

Bush made terrible mistakes, but so did Churchill, who was later credited with saving Europe from Nazism.

But like Churchill, Bush recognised a problem and tried to deal with it from strength, and like Churchill he was regarded by everyone as a war mongerer.

During all this, Europe, the UN and the liberal medias of the world, aided by Hollywood and the bitter defeatism of the Democrats in opposition and now in Congess, have indicated to the fanatics who have highjacked Islam to wage war on all of us, that they need only wait a few more years, and the world's policeman will revert to being popular again by doing nothing.

This is what Clinton did during his term, and why everyone looks back on him with fondness. And it's what will happen when/if the Democrats get back the Presidency.

Why should anyone take the US seriously when they can believe, just from watching CNN or the BBC, that once Bush and his supporters are moved from power, they can dictate the agenda again?

Stephen Rothbart, Prague, Czech Republic

You must be a very lonely man in this world of political liberals, but you are absolutely right!

Jack, London,

"American taxpayers have financed a military dictator in the hope that Musharraf will suppress the fundamentalists and provide logistical support for Nato operations in Afghanistan"
America has done this time and time again- admitedly it has usually deposed a democratically elected leader first - but this is american tactics. As long as the result is (at least temporarily) a client state of America it is percieved as a benefit and the actions justified. and no this isn't an attack on america it's a statement about rule and control. these are independent nations who should not have to bow to anyone. if america continues to go around poking bears with sticks, expect it to be bitten.

john, sydney,