The latest Newsweek poll shows that last week's foiled airline plot actually boosted President Bush's ratings. How is this possible? President Bush didn't do anything, positive or negative!!! This latest terror plot took place in the UK, was handled by the British police and Scotland Yard. All we (as a nation) did was react to it. So what can one deduce except that Americans go whichever way the wind blows. The story in Newsweek discusses the fact that President Bush has learned over the past five years since 9/11 not to overreact to terrorist threats, which is what he practiced not doing last week...he stepped back and let British Prime Minister Tony Blair take the lead, since the attack was to take place on planes departing from his country.
Americans seem to approve more of Bush's War on Terror when they feel their lives, or the lives of other like-thinking westerners, are directly threatened. What happens in the interim?
1 comment:
Cause its the media--thats why they bother.
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