Bull --

No one is discounting the leadership and calm that Rudy G. showed immediately after 9/11. However, now that he is a national figure commenting in the national press on national policy, it is fair for any American citizen to consider and disagree with his comments.

We are not just living in a post-9/11 world. We are living in a post-Iraq world. We are living in a world where a united Europe and a hostile China are looming on superpowerdom. Our national policies cannot be directed through the myopic lens of 9/11 -- as the Mayor and McCain's policies seem to be.

The Bush-McCain "post-9/11" foreign policy has been a disastrous exercise in cowboy diplomacy that alienated a world poised to like us again after half-a-century of increasing anti-Americanism. It is time for us to engage the world, not engage in combat with it. This is the foreign policy we should have had post-9/11; that is the foreign policy Obama offers; that is the wise course that McCain and Rudy G. stupidly criticize.

Beathan