Posted on 07/13/2006 4:51:53 AM PDT by IrishMike
No president can anticipate all of the problems that will arise on his "watch," but surely even his worst enemies will admit that George W. Bush has been handed more than his fair share of exploding cigars.
To be sure, observers have long foreseen that a time would come when an alarming number of medium-sized nations would acquire the ability to construct nuclear weapons and the technology to inflict them on other countries. Hence the decades-long effort to impose restrictions on such efforts, notably through the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. But the treaty has been only marginally successful, and a series of presidents of both parties have watched a chain of ill-intentioned "rogue nations" move resolutely toward nuclear capability, and simply thanked their stars that the bad actors wouldn't reach it while they were in the White House.
As luck would have it, the chickens came home to roost during the administration of the junior Bush. North Korea is believed to have succeeded in constructing about half a dozen nuclear weapons, plus missiles capable of dropping them on South Korea, Japan, Alaska and Hawaii. And Iran is thought to be within two or three years (some say less) of developing them, along with missiles that threaten the Middle East and perhaps Europe too. Worse yet, North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il has demonstrated a willingness to sell such weapons to other countries, and quite possibly to terrorist organizations as well.
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Thus the eggs laid by the "Realists" come home to roost. Amazingly even after 9-11 the "Realists" are still running around screaming their Neo-Isolationist dogma. THIS is what you bought US fools. Go back to hiding under you beds while better men clean up the mess you people created.
Not a day goes by that I do not thank God that GWB is our President during these times.
Having Al Gore running around blaming global warming for terror attacks and nuclear prolifieration just wouldn't cut it.
You are absolutely correct. If AlGore had been elected President his response to 9/11 would be to apologize for having constructed the WTC too high and thus making it a target. In other words, he would have blamed us rather than the terrorists.
God has Blessed the U.S. by giving us a great President like President Bush!!
I don't think there has ever been a President who has had to handle all that he has or handled it as well.
Exactly!
Thank You God we have President Bush for 2 years, wished we could have him until this WOT is over, but we can't....
We just have to make sure we re-elect good, solid Republicans so he can finish his two years left in grand old style...
Win the war in Iraq; win the war in Afghanistan; and support Israel if she needs us.....which I doubt she does....
Prayers go to President Bush and his last two years in Office.
"surely even his worst enemies will admit".....NOT! The hate is visceral..
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