Every time Kerry blames Bush for failing to build alliances and squandering long time friendships with this war, I truly wonder if he knows why countries form alliances. If he thinks for a minute that they do it out of a simple sense of friendship and goodwill, then he has no business being in the White House. Also, when he talks about the new post cold war realities and that we need to prepare for it, I wonder what he thinks Bush has been doing for the past three and a half years. It seems to me that Bush understands that our cold war alliances and policies must change and has been working feverishly towards that end. As far as Bush’s diplomatic prowess, I thought this was an excellent take on the interim Iraqi government and the outsmarting of the UN.