Good Point

I think this is an excellent point on how history will look back at this period of time:

Iran is a sexy story right now, and rightfully so. But when the dust of history settles on the Iraq War, I'm not sure that the unleashing of Iran will rate as its most significant adverse outcome. That honor might very well go to the deterioration of the American-Turkish strategic alliance. Because unlike Iraq or Iran, which we never really stood a chance of winning over, Turkey was already on our side. And we're in the process of losing it, at the very moment when religious Muslims have begun to dominate the Turkish political scene.

And not just Turkey, but the middle east in general as well as the developing world. The U.S. and the western world's embrace of Bush have led to a radioactivity that can't do anything but help extremists in the region.

I'm going to predict that someday, probably in my lifetime, the U.S. will be negotiating with national leaders who are current al Qaeda members.