Anonymous says:

I think that folks who spew paranoid looniness like the Patriot are a symptom of the illness suffered by the extreme right in this country. They are bitter because, for a short time, they were able to be in political power and that short era has ended. Now the pendulum of common sense and decency has swung back in the other direction. America is healing itself from the demented and paranoid ravings of Dick Cheney and his ilk. Unlike Mr. Cheney and his passive puppet president, George Bush, Mr. Obama actually consults experts in foreign affairs before making a decision of how to interact on the world stage. I am sure that Mr. Obama's measured messages to the muslim world, including his sympathy for past actions of the United States, have sent a new message that makes it very difficult for the extreme elements of nations like Iran to continue to recruit new minds to a worldview that the United States is simply evil. It's hard to think of the United States as evil, when its leader is offering understanding, and firm resolve to improve the relationship with muslims over the world. The young people of Iran have heard the message and they are rebeling against the old hatred of the hardliners. Time will tell if the young people will bring about change this time, but the LAST thing we should be doing is taking foreign policy advice from the same neanderthal, paranoid, idiots who got us into this mess.