Damning with faint praise, methinks.
Coalitions are obviously not worth the headache; France, Russia, and Germany sell out freedom and democracy every time.
Also, tell the Iraqis and Afghans that they should aspire to a lower form of democracy...
This article is pretentious and arm-chair quarterbacking. Sometimes a US President has to go it alone, global tests be damned.
There is plenty of evidence that Saddam had WMDs, and/or was building them. Also that he had clear terrorist ties. In W's place, I would have done the same thing, except MUCH sooner. Colin Powell and the CIA undercut Bush for their own benefit in their pro-UN lunacy.
Good reply.
Bush's strategy is correct. Many simply do not get it, we are in a war with people that we cannot make peace with. There is no country we can conquer, bring to the peace table, and thereby end the war on terror. We have to hunt them down wherever they are and try to create conditions that favor some kind of democracy in critical areas. That's strictly long term. We took over the Phillipines over a hundred years ago, installed democracy at great cost to the American army, and they still have insurgents.