The war on terror as initially envisioned by the US is lost – today Bush effectively declared the CIA 'torture' program illegal, upheld the Geneva conventions, promised to eventually close down Guantanamo and try the captured 9/11 terrorist leaders in military tribunals with defence attorneys provided. Now it is just an intelligence and police problem, what it should have been all along. Also in today's speech, George W. Bush was petulantly bitter about the decision of the US Supreme Court in Hamdan vs Rumsfeld
The Hizbullah-Lebanon war has permanently tipped the delicate balance. Israel's aura was defeated, and together with it – the last vestiges of American moral and military credibility.
