Michael — Just curious, how would you differentiate that from the general thrust of Bush’s core assumptions? It seems that I heard a lot of folks say that Bush’s core conviction was that if you scratched beneath the surface of Arabs or Muslims you would find a Western liberal (I’ve heard Rich Lowry say words to that effect more than once). Is it that Bush also allowed for the existence of irredeemable enemies who couldn’t be negotiated with? I’m not trying to stake out a position of my own for the moment; it’s just that when I read your post, my first reaction was, “Gosh, a lot of people are going to see that as a continuation of Bush’s vision, rather than a break from it.”