Well, I think the war has thrown al-Qaeda off-balance, for the time being anyway, so that's a good thing. And, as I've said before, if the "left" were attentive and truly organized, they would put down their "No War" placards and seize upon the critical statements made by the Bush admin toward Israel, as well as the noises made on behalf of a Palestinian state. Bush/Cheney may be doing this for cynical geopolitical reasons, but it is an opening, far bigger than what we would've seen under Gore/Lieberman.
DP