Pseudo-reality based

Sjrda Trifkovic looks at disturbing reports about the President's willingness to hear bad news, and has some good advice for a more effective U.S. foreign policy: "To deal with the terrorist threat effectively and on the basis of leadership willingly accepted by those who are led, the United States should discard the pernicious notion of its exceptionalism. But instead of realizing that the threat to America is enhanced by the policy of global hegemony, President Bush is turning that hegemony into a divinely-ordained, morally mandated, open-ended and self-justifying mission of this country for decades to come."