IMHO....Foreign enemies, yes. Domestic enemies ......no .
19 Saudi Nationals perpetrated 09/11. We now have somewhere around 30,000 Saudi Nationals on our soil.
We have been very fortunate. Bush has skated IMO. We are one event away from people recognizing our position for what it is. And the guy on this watch, will have about a 1% approval rating if it does. If it doesn’t, he will get much more credit than he is due.
We have done the right thing in Iraq. We sucked in the willing terrorists, and liquidated a bunch of them. We caused the foreign terrorists to focus on it, instead of us. That was a reasoned policy. Removing Hussein was a reasoned policy. IMO, Iran and Syria deserve the same treatment.
Right now we are watching Syria grain a stranglehold on Lebanon. It’s going to cause serious problems. We should step in and use it as a reason to make some changes in Syria. We won’t.
I agree with some of what Bush has done. I think he has still made some serious mistakes. Asking Saudi Arabia to increase their oil production in public was one of them. It seriously hurt his image in a region where he needs to be seen as strong.
Bush has been a mixed bag IMO. I don’t hate the guy, but he has been a dismal failure. We’re going to pay for it on November 4th one way or the other.