Irishgit, I completely agree. Both sides are equally guilty. I put this on the list because this is not the conventional wisdom. Quite on the contrary, the right likes to portray the left as "soft" on everything, whether it's crime, terrorism, etc. They would portray us as soft-headed, over-feeling types. But one thing the Bush Revolution has shown us is that a politics of "feeling" is now the strategy of the right, rather than the left. We know this because Bush's target audience is soccer moms. But also because their foreign policy has been run this way. As Kenneth Adelman of the Defense Policy Board said, in reassuring Cheney and Rumsfeld of their plan to go into Iraq: "I have no evidence that Iraq was involved in nine-eleven, but I feel it."
