A lot of folks on FR see things as either all black or all white and no shades of grey. But reality isn’t like that and neither are people.
Bush was generally problematic both domestically and abroad for me and many. He was prone to political correctness, didn’t put bin Laden away when he could have, took his eye off the ball in Afghanistan, and went on his ill-advised adventure in Iraq. But 9-11 wasn’t because of Bush, it was becasue of Clinton.
Among other things, Bush inherited an intelligence mess from Clinton who deliberately separated information and communication between the CIA and the FBI. Bush did exactly the right thing in response to 9-11 and didn’t flinch like the Left ALWAYS does. Bush immediately went after the bad guys in Afghanistan. He surprised the enemy who didn’t realize Bush was not like the feckless Clinton, set them back on their heels and deep into their caves.
In his response to 9-11, he STARTED OUT right. He just didn’t stay the course.
“Bush was generally problematic both domestically and abroad for me and many. He was prone to political correctness, didn’t put bin Laden away when he could have, took his eye off the ball in Afghanistan, and went on his ill-advised adventure in Iraq. But 9-11 wasn’t because of Bush, it was becasue of Clinton.”
I didn’t say Bush was responsible for the attack, just the disasterous and poorly-conceived response to it. That feckless response didn’t make us safer, it just wasted billions of our dollars and cost thousands of precious American lives.
If he has been willing to actually be a war president, instead of just play-acting one, we would have been far off. Instead we got “religion of peace” and “your duty is to keep shopping.”