The Bush Doctrine, redux

It might be a fair argument to consider 9/11 the most significant event in the last 20 years from an American foreign policy standpoint. I think it can be persuasively argued that what happened on 9/11 has caused more change in foreign policy than even the fall of the Soviet bloc. We have been engaged in one of the longest, and probably soon to be the longest, wars in our nations history because of what happened on 9/11. It may even be possible to argue that it has had a more significant effect than the fall of the Berlin Wall. It will be much more significant in the American psyche. So, looking at it from a US centric point of view, yes, I think it was the most significant event in American foreign policy, fall of Berlin Wall and following events included.

If I were in Europe, I might think differently.

As far as Lowery's writing on Palin's book. I guess I really don't care. I don't care about the book either. Seems a lot of attention on something that is really not all that important. Show me a politicians book and I will show you a just another piece of campaign advertisement. Give me a memoir when someone has actually done something and is going to retire to private life. Then I will look into for some real insight.

With all of the worry about war, budgets, health care and how we are going to clean this mess up, why is a kiss and tell book so important? Heck, I almost wish we could make a law that no Presidential candidate could have ever written a book about themselves before they get elected President! [Yes, I know. Unconstitutional. It doesn't mean I can't dream of opening up a few rows of shelf space in the biography section for some real biographies and not manufacture campaign material.