The irony of Bushism. W's stated goal, the thing that God tells him to do when He speaks to W, is to bring western style Democracy to the Middle East... nay, to the World.
And yet, the terrorists are winning. In my field of Substance Abuse Counseling, I let my clients know that hanging out with active drug abusers is risky, because one of two things will happen. Either: 1- you will bring them up to your level, or; 2- they will bring you down to theirs.
So now, the US Gov't has been brought down to the level of Fascist Dictatorships. Arrests without habeus corpus, tribunal courts (if at all), and torture to get at "the truth."
Rather than our having brought all the goodness of Western Style Democracy to the Middle East, we have imported their Fascist Dictatorship here.
And the scariest thing for me is that W has slipped into this Dictatorship for the same reasons that powerful men have become Dictators for millennia: Because he can. Because he knows "Muslim Terrorists" (there are no other kind of terrorists, apparently, to the Bushists) have hurt the US, he wants to hurt them. If not en masse, then one at a time is okay.