You bring out a couple of good points that Steyn doesn't.
First, much of our military was run down by the klintons, and they've fought tooth-and-nail, through the democRAT party, to prevent it from being rebuilt.
Second, our military industrial capacity has been weakened, again thanks to the RATS. The weaponry that should have been restocked after Gulf War I was instead further depleted by Bill using it to influence the daily news cycle whenever his ass was in legal trouble.
Third, Bill and Hitlery sucked up to terrorists of all kinds, and Bush has had to work hard to convince the world that America is under new management, and countries have to choose between helping, or being listed in the footnotes of the "axis of evil".
The "delay" has been used to fix our weaknesses, and undo some of the damage caused by Bill and Hitlery, who harmed America far more than the raghead terrorists could ever aspire to. My personal prediction is that Gulf War 2 will last less than a week, and will have so much high-tech razzle-dazzle that scenes from Gulf War 1 will look like slogging through the trenches of World War 1.