If THAT is your barometer of a great President, it explains your failure to accurately assess the Bush catastrophy.
And he’s NOT the first President to deal with a terrorist threat. Who was President during the Barbary Wars? Jefferson or Madison? I can’t remember.
Bush did accomplish a great military victory in Afghanistan and in Iraq. But then he blew it by assuming thesew people think like us and sould be relied on to behave like civilized westerners. It took him how many years and how many dead Americans to realize that only a strong military force could intimidate the “insurgents”?
What we need to do is learn from this lesson and elect a real conservative this time. We even have two, who are actually running, who fit the bill. Hunter and Thompson.
What we cannot afford is to run another "Democrat-lite" Republican.
Barbary Wars? I meant in our time. Sure, he has left us wanting, but I give him a great deal of credit for his actions. Of course, he should have appointed you as “grandmaster tactician”, but no one is perfect, not even thsoe who can make bullet lists and power point presentations, while not having to be accountable.