I like someone who is a little crazy but coming from a good place. I think scars are sexy because it means you made a mistake that led to a mess.
When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
There are legitimate, even powerful arguments, to be made against the Bush administration's foreign policy. But those arguments are complicated, hard to explain, and, in the end, not all that sensational.