David Gergen actually said...

"What he can't do, of course, is make policy and that really is up the president today, George W. Bush."

"He's putting heavy weights in place. I'm not sure that would been the case, had there been a more complacent view towards what he was facing."

"He has to send a message publicly to terrorists in India and elsewhere that just as George W. Bush has been tough on terrorism, he will be do."

"The danger for him is that we've always understood there's an arc of instability and crisis in the world that stretched essentially from Israel, Lebanon, to the Mediterranean, over in to Pakistan and ..."