Presidents have to think 50 years out. W did.
W did a lot of un-conservative things, but letting rabid muslims take over the US wasn’t one of them.
He foresaw Israel and Saudi Arabia, along with Jordan having to take out Iran sooner than later.
If Cruz hadn’t won for Bush in 2000 before SCOTUS, we’d all be seeing arabic signs on our streets, with Gore President.
Ya, he did. But he failed to calculate that the attention span of the American people is about 50 days not 50 years.
I recall talking to a leftist guy in my office after 9-11 about what was going to happen.
We both agreed it was war, both in Afghanistan and Iraq. He was OK with that.
I said it was the correct thing to do , but doubted we would prevail because it was at minimum a 50 to 100 year low level war, and the Western World has no stomach for that kind of commitment. He just thought it should be like a Hollywood movie and it would be over quick.
Sure enough, after a few months, even before Iraq, he was arguing to get out of Afghanistan.
People do not understand a multi-generational commitment necessary to really overturn a culture which is the only way, short of nukes, we can 'secure peace' in the mid east.