Clearly, these two events were going to provoke different responses, politically and militarily.
Response A, 1941. Defeat the Japanesse and German war machine. Defeat those countries and their people.
Response B, 2001. Work with various willing countries and their willing people in the Middle East and around the world to defeat the terrorists in their own country. Remove dictators and replace with democracy any terrorist supporting country that refuses to cooperate ASAP. See Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan for positive results with Syria, Iran and (Lebanon) to follow.
Two different responses. Both are correct.
That's a very clear, concise and correct answer.
Response B, 2001. Work with various willing countries and their willing people in the Middle East and around the world to defeat the terrorists in their own country. Remove dictators and replace with democracy any terrorist supporting country that refuses to cooperate ASAP. See Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan for positive results with Syria, Iran and (Lebanon) to follow.
That isn't.
Let's dissect this, for the sake of clarity. When you can't speak plainly about something, like WWII, there's usually a reason.
Work with various willing countries and their willing people in the Middle East and around the world to defeat the terrorists in their own country.
Technically true, but most of the terrorists are from countries that help us with one hand, and stuff money into terrorist coffers in the other. These "willing countries" like removing terrorist threats to their own regime, though.
Often by exporting them.
Remove dictators and replace with democracy any terrorist supporting country that refuses to cooperate ASAP.
How soon is ASAP? Iran, Syria and Pakistan called, and they wanted to know.
See Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan for positive results with Syria, Iran and (Lebanon) to follow.
Iraq?
Afghanistan is fast becoming the Columbia of Central Asia. The Taliban is now supervising and exporting heroin, and takes in more money than the Afghan central government.
Pakistan is one heartbeat away from becoming a radical Islamist state with tested nuclear weapons and missiles. They still support terrorism against India as a matter of state policy.
Saudi Arabia is about 50 heartbeats away from going from covert to overt Islamofascist, and their emirs bankroll every jihad, intifada and uprising there is.
Lebanon made great progress, but is now falling under the sway of Syria and Iran, who are every inch as terrorist today as they were in 2001.
Libya ditched their nuclear program, though, and that is good.