The bi-partisan Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism has announced that they expect a major terrorist attack using a WMD, most likely biological or nuclear, within five years.  We are now less safe, in other words, than we were when 9-11 happened.  So there are clearly a few questions to ask relating to this: 1) What can we do to stop such an attack from occurring? 1a) What can we do to keep these weapons from terrorists? 1b) How do we eliminate the desire to carry out these attacks? 2) Why is it that the world is MORE dangerous following Bush’s “War on Terror” than it was before he began it? 2a) How better could the last 8 years have been handled? 2b) What has the current administration done correct?

As much as I dislike the Bush administration and see his presidency as an utter failure of monumental proportions of incompetence, there are some things they have done right.  I think some of the step taken to prevent an attack in the US have been very important and helpful.  We need checks and balances, yes, but we also need to be serious minded about what is a very real threat.  As far as long term, we need a president who builds alliances and reduces the threats to the US by eliminating the desire to cause us harm.  We need to review our role in the world and what we have done to make matters worse and what we have done to make things better.  We have done both great good and great bad.  Let’s try to get it more to the good.

    Here's my guess. If the economy goes up, Obama's rating will too. If the economy goes down, so will Obama's rating. Now let's watch it right here. It may not happen immediately, but it will usually follow.
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