I just read your NYTimes article and I will consider it one of the most telling and interesting high-level analyses of the Bush Presidency. There are a number

I just read your NYTimes article and I will consider it one of the most telling and interesting high-level analyses of the Bush Presidency. There are a number of lessons to glean from it that go beyond the topic set by the OP. This one about sleight-of-hand language resonated: > I said, 'Mr. President, if we don't devote our energy, our focus and our time on also overcoming global poverty and desperation, we will lose not only the war on poverty, but we'll lose the war on terrorism."' > Bush replied that that was why America needed the leadership of Wallis and other members of the clergy. > "No, Mr. President," Wallis says he told Bush, "We need your leadership on this question, and all of us will then commit to support you. Unless we drain the swamp of injustice in which the mosquitoes of terrorism breed, we'll never defeat the threat of terrorism." > Bush looked quizzically at the minister, Wallis recalls. They never spoke again after that.