The last I heard is that there are still hundreds of unclaimed bodies in New Orleans stored in warehouses. They died during Katrina. If bush wants to do something good, he ought to have the Feds pay to give those Americans in NOLA a decent burial (but he won’t). There is something drastically wrong with that boy!
People of good will can argue the wisdom of getting involved in Iraq in the first place and perhaps even the wisdom of remaining there.
I believe we were correct to get involved there initially.
But once we wrecked Saddam's military and removed him from power, we should have skedaddled. Playing social worker is not the function of the American military. We made and delivered an effective message - screw with us and you're dead.
But to globalist Bush and his advisers, this was not enough. As a Presidential-Wannabe of the entire world, his goal was to create a democracy where none ever existed before in an area full of turmoil, inhabited by people with a limited sense of national identity, and committed to a medieval religious and political belief system locked in the 7th Century. How smart is that?
Thanks to Bush's flawed perception of goals in that area, we are now committed to securing that objective, regardless of the number of lives lost or wealth squandered. In a part of the world where saving face means everything and backing down is fatal, he has manipulated us into this position. As we are still locked in a life and death struggle with Islam, an enemy the Administration refuses to acknowledge of the source of our problems, he has committed us to fighting a battle we cannot afford to loose on grounds favorable to our enemy and not to us.
Just like Presidential-wannabe of the entire world was willing to invest millions of dollars in Africa, he is now apparently committed to investing more millions in Myanmar.