Proving our manhood

I've always had a theory that the men who were most unsure of their manhood were the ones who always wanted to prove their manhood by picking a fight. A case in point:

US President George W. Bush on Thursday warned that a hasty pull-out from Iraq would ruin fragile progress there and convince extremists and Iran that the United States is a "paper tiger."

"Failure in Iraq would embolden the extremists. Failure in Iraq would say to thugs and killers, the United States is a paper tiger," Bush said in a speech here. "Failure in Iraq would embolden Iran."

We have to stay in and get battered from head to toe in order to prove we're STRONG.

Isn't it strange that the one president of ours who is most revered in the Arab world (at least from my experience there) is the one who never fought a battle there -- Jimmy Carter.