I don't care how smart a kid you are. The only way you learn what's not right is from experience.
I'd kiss a frog even if there was no promise of a Prince Charming popping out...
It evolved from my experience in the fifties growing up during the McCarthy...
What President Bush did in his doctrine of preemptive strike and in his war in Afghanistan and in Iraq was to turn even his allies in Europe negatively toward America.