In letter after letter, I see people protesting that President Bush has done and is doing a good job on the war on terror. But in every one of these missives, the underlying fearful thought is the same:

I don't want to throw away my rabbit's foot.

This mystifies me, as I cannot see what such people find "lucky" or protective in George W. Bush. Yes, he did make a speech at the Statue of Liberty on the night of September 11, 2001, urging us to be brave, promising protection from further terrorist attacks and vowing Biblical revenge upon those who brought down the Twin Towers. But he was also the president who ignored multiple intelligence warnings that terrorists were planning to fly planes into tall buildings.

He is not a rabbit's foot of good fortune. To paraphrase considerably an old 60's expression, he is not the solution, he is the problem.

Michael J. Lombardi