] I realize that we have enemies and they need to be
] confronted. But I do not want this to be all that America
] is about in the world anymore, and that is what has
] happened under this administration. I don't want the rest
] of my career to be about an America that exports fear,
] not hope, and ends up importing everyone else's fears as
] a result. I don't want it to be about explaining to young
] Chinese why my government can't give them student visas
] anymore. I don't want it to be about visiting U.S.
] Embassies around the world and finding them so isolated
] behind barbed wire, they might as well not be there at
] all. Defeating "them" has begun to define "us" in too
] many ways.

I'm enjoyed Thomas Friedman's analysis of Iraq for a while now, and he makes a good point about where this "War on Terror" is taking us.

Friedman on US Foreign Policy