W was a terrible president one of the worst ever.
W deserves a bit more historical credit for his accomplishments, especially against Islam. Remember, he had barely survived his election battle, was handed an ailing Clinton economy, had little to work with after Clinton's eight years of dismantling of our military/intelligence resources, and was subjected to constant attack/ridicule by the media and most of Congress throughout his presidency.
Supposedly, the world finally opened it's eyes on 9/11 to the growing threat of Islam, but did little to help W fight it. Yet, he persevered through the enormous hoops placed in front of him in Congress and the World stage to get two paltry battlefields in obscure nations to address this threat. Fortunately for us those two nations became magnets for terrorists and provided us the means of wiping them out on foreign soil. In the process we were able to improve our military resources, obtain valuable intelligence, and understand our enemy and how to fight them. Sadly, our current sitting traitorous twit has essentially pissed away all of those gains and is actively importing the threat to our homeland.
Yes, it was a PC war. Yes, we lost a lot of brave men fighting it. It's a lie to think it could have been done differently since the world couldn't really stomach what needed to be done. Considering the massive hurdles W had to get past to do anything (on any issue) he wasn't discouraged from trying to keep the fight away from our soil and never once ignored the reality of what we were fighting.