He wishes we'd have another 9/11 so we would be united...but he seems to forget that such unity lasted only until we went to Afghanistan ("a quagmire" as Ted Kennedy and others called it).
Our president is not tying our soldiers' hands. I see those who say this as being just as illogical as this writer. The troop surge which is getting results is not done to appease the left--really, if Bush were going to appease the left or foreign governments, we never would have gone into Iraq. Some people are exhibiting the behavior this writer sees, which is the need for speed.
But we're not ONLY fighting a war--we're trying to build a country that can serve as an alternative to the kind of world Al Qaeda wants--ON the battleground of that war.
Do most people know how incredibly difficult that is?
The Ron Paul fools believe we can just up and leave Iraq. I have an idea along the lines of this columnist's "thinking"--why not just go into our kids' rooms and smother them? That way we would be guaranteeing they never have to live in a world run by Muslim wackjobs.
Bush is flawed in so many ways, but he's always seemed to me to be focused on what MUST be done in the Middle East, now, not later. I suspect this is due to his having briefings on national security and Al Qaeda's actions, the near-misses, the wiretaps, etc.
Abu Grahbe, Gitmo and other such embarassments are minor, MINOR flaws (which the critics seem to forget have been dealt with, the perps punished, as they should be). We have lost many brave Americans in Iraq who would be alive today if we had perfect foresight, perfect intel, and Iraqis who weren't cowed by decades under a dictator, living in the shadow of Muslim extremism. I hate to sound so glib, since I never served in the military, but FDR lost more men in one day of WW2 than we've lost so far in Iraq...and the stakes, while not as obvious, are just as high.
We don't need another 9/11. We need the bitching, whining, overly-coddled "moderates" and leftists in this country to get a clue. They strike me as a bunch of scared brats who don't believe things can REALLY be that bad.
All they have to do is look to the Middle East. If they don't get their **** together and join the president in trying to WIN this war--heck, if they don't first admit we are AT war--then we may get many more 9/11's, and the result will not be what this columnist wants, but outcries to retreat...and we'll have more 9/11's than you could imagine after that.
MINOR flaws? UH excuse me?
So tell me how ‘we’re’ trying to build Iraq ..thus far what has been accomplished?