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.
” 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.”
And perhaps the worst of these:
1. Would anyone have argued on 9/12 with the need to properly secure the boarders?
2. Would anyone have argued with a program to make us not dependent on Middle East oil (drill baby drill).
3. And to recover from the financial disruption caused by 9/11, roll back the Clinton tax hikes PERMANENTLY.
When comparing W to FDR regarding war it's **essential** to point out that under FDR no Republican sided with Hitler or Tojo whereas,under W,a good percentage of the opposition party sided with our enemies...as was seen in Vietnam as well.
” 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.”
on #1 - we now have DHS. It should go without saying but it is the most invasive freedom-crushing bureaucracy ever conceived, and is now in the hands of a communist wannabe dictator.
on #2 - he stated that “Victory would not be like our fathers or grandfathers.....” (WTF?) in Afghanistan - setting the stage for the disaster it is.
on #3 - he repeatedly defended “Religion of Peace” mantra that diluted his stated goal, and made it impossible to achieve.
What else ya got?
Look at Iraq and Afghanistan. The BS media made it worse. I seriously doubt our ability to use the Army or Marines for anything beyond punitive raids.
PERIOD.
GWB had a damaging, overwhelming, adverse opposition to his Presidency....Nothing like what FDR faced. Nothing!