it is still my opinion that rumsfield and bush executed the war in just the right way to enable the killing of more jihadists than ever...
if we overwhelmed them, al-qada would have scattered like the roaches they are and infested a lot more areas. this plan, as limited and brainless as the mainstream media made it out to be, attracted the very best of the worse kind of people and allowed our brave men and women the opportunity to kill them, all of them.
jmho, of course.
teeman
I will disagree.
With Afghan and Iraq under our control, and with Libya rolling over as soon as they saw the American military’s power, there would have been no nation willing to harbor the Al Qaeda. The congressional authorization allowed Pres Bush to go after them wherever they went AND against any country that harbored them.
They frittered away every single bit of that momentum by allowing an insurgency to get legs in Iraq.
Remember: It took only 4 years to win WWII. We’ve been at the low intensity conflict side of this for 5 years now.
With nations on notice that they would be toppled if necessary, Al Qaeda would have been able to run, but they wouldn’t have been able to hide.
Peters is right. Shinseki was right. Our ground troops were right.
Not to mention the speed with which they caught Saddam and his 2 sons which was brilliant.
President Bush took the offense from DAY ONE and has never let up. He has won this war with very low US casualties and thousands of terrorists have been killed.
He has done an outstanding job IMO.
A lot of tiptoeing went on regarding the issue...and rightly so. Now the common consensus is that we were fools for believing it, but the bad intelligence of the 90's had resulted in a pervasive culture of fear regarding the issue. Again, Pres. Bush did a wonderful job in prosecuting the war while negotiating all those issues as well. I will never take for granted the relative security we enjoy today. It was far from a foregone conclusion in those early, fearful days.