Dimitri Simes, president of the Nixon Center, a conservative think tank, on Bush’s inaugural speech:
“If Bush means it literally, then it means we have an extremist in the White House. I hope and pray that he didn’t mean it … [and] that it was merely an inspirational speech, not practical guidance for the conduct of foreign policy.”
An inspiration to warmongers and funeral home operators — with the rest of us just hoping and praying it isn’t true. Has it really come to this?