Hate to be accused of recycling one of my earlier comments, but this is the truth about GWB:
“Yes I do blame GWB. But I understand what his fault TRULY was.
He squandered the greatest opportunity since Pearl Harbor!
From his famous scene standing on top of a burned out fire truck, till his famous quote of “you are either with us or against us” he had it right. But then, like his father’s entire term, and Reagan’s second term, he committed the unpardonable sin - he began listening to and acting in accordance with the advice of “advisers”.
Soon words like “inclusiveness” and “consensus” replaced direct action. And the laser like focus that should have been there was replaced with muddled group speak. This nonsense ruined GHWB’s term in office in its entirety. It really made Reagan’s second term nowhere equal to his first. And once GWB stopped listening to his own heart and started following the advice of the nitwits around him, his presidency was lost as well.
To bring this country together, even for a few months, takes a Pearl Harbor type event. They don’t happen often. And to have been President during one and squandered the opportunity, it a failure of the highest order.”
I agree completely. After Pearl Harbor, FDR had three immediate, critical tasks:
1. Protect the homeland.
2. Win the war in Europe, and in the Pacific.
3. Eliminate German and Japanese imperialism as a threat to the world.
Sure, FDR was weak in many areas, but he completed all three of the above, in less than four years!
Now consider Bush II after 9/11. He had to:
1. Protect the homeland.
2. Win the war in Afghanistan.
3. Eliminate radical islam as a threat to the world.
Bush had seven years, and he failed in numbers 2 and 3, failed miserably.
I'm sure Bush is a good person, and he'd make a great next-door neighbor. But his failures will haunt this country for generations. Like Vietnam, only much worse.