Republicans are giddy that they failed to capture OBL

[Silent Hunter]

/sighs

Only three more days of this left...

By the way, when was terrorism a 'nuisance'? It wasn't a nuisance in the 1970s and it isn't now. It's a threat.

[Silent Hunter]

The global test comment in full:

"But if and when you do it, Jim, you have to do it in a way that passes the test, that passes the global test where your countrymen, your people understand fully why you're doing what you're doing and you can prove to the world that you did it for legitimate reasons."

[Silent Hunter]

The whole thing seems to say to me that he wouldn't cede the right to launch a pre-emptive war, but he'd only do it if it passed the 'global test':

'You have to do it in the way that passes the test'