On September 12, 2001, we had the world on our side. Even people and nations who didn't like us a lot of the time felt that we did not deserve what happened on that day, and wanted to see the perpetrators of that event brought to justice. In the ensuing five and a half years, Dubya has managed to squander every last bit of that diplomatic and political capital until even nations of Europe who had been our staunch allies since the end of WWII have come to hate us, or at least to view us with suspicion.

This is gonna take an awful long time to repair. If that ever happens.