  Missing the Dry Air, Sunshine and Arizona Love I'm back from my vacation in Tucson, AZ and feeling jet-lagged for the first time in years.
Fun Fun. Before I post about the highlights of my trip, I wanted to tie up a loose end. I think my last post was kinda wordy and I'm not even sure if it was inteligible, so freshly culled from urlLink this article in the National Review, my sentiments but better written: "How many times have we been told that George W. Bush "squandered" the good will of the world "community" after 9/11? The assumption behind all of this seemed to be that anything which cost America the support of allies like France or Germany was, in effect, too costly. In other words, the means — "strong alliances" — are more important than the ends — winning the war on terror, toppling Saddam, and so forth. Listening to these folks, one gets the sense that America's greatest foreign-policy triumph was to get sucker-punched on 9/11 because it resulted in sympathetic newspaper headlines in Paris and Berlin. " 
