Your Nose is Welcome in our Business, Sir

The Economist publishes their reluctant endorsement of Kerry. They note his conservative fiscal stance approvingly, but worry about the tendancy to vacillate and a possible inability to successfully advocate on issues he supports.

Notably, they call Bush's most significant error the Guantanamo debacle, describing it as "constant evidence of America's hypocrisy." And they slam him here:

...Meanwhile Mr Bush's credibility has been considerably undermined not just by Guantánamo but also by two big things: by the sheer incompetence and hubristic thinking evident in the way in which his team set about the rebuilding of Iraq, once Saddam Hussein's regime had been toppled; and by the abuses at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, which strengthened the suspicion that the mistreatment or even torture of prisoners was being condoned.

The jist is that the president-elect must offer "discipline" to rein in American's authority in the world. We think this is an excellent choice of words.