Question for debate: Resolved, the country would have been better off if Bush had done absolutely nothing after 911, instead of the course he actually took.
Disagree. Things went wrong when we moved beyond the punitive expedition and into nation building.
caww made one of the best statements I’ve seen on Free Republic in months the other day:
“The major lesson of the Iraq war is our country and leadership cannot foresee the consequences of any war with the middle east countries with sufficient accuracy to be attempting to micromanage the geopolitics of those countries.”
I guess technically you might say the Iraq occupation, but you get the idea.