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COPYRIGHT 2003 All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The Condé Nast Publications Inc.
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The sight of President Bush taking his extraordinary victory lap earlier this month aboard the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln made it more difficult to argue with those (a planet-wide majority, if we can believe the international polls) who accuse our leaders of arrogance. Flying in at the controls of a Navy jet, making a tail-hook landing, back-slapping sailors in the California sunshine while wearing a fighter-pilot flight suit, then announcing, against the blue Pacific, the end of major combat in Iraq--well, it had a certain swagger. And yet there are signs that the Bush Administration is genuinely concerned about not seeming triumphal over its victory in Iraq. In fact, we are told, there was no victory--only a liberation--and the Administration has been trying to get out the message that homecoming parades for the troops, including a big one here in New York, should somehow make that distinction clear....
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