Imagine if we did what the leftists wanted on Spetember 11th and just tried to use diplomacy and policing powers to resolve the issues.
1. Afghanistan was on the verge of famine. It probably would have been on a scale comparable to Ethiopia of the eighties or North Korea of the nineties. Millions would have died.
2. We would have been hit again by terrorists, probably on multiple occasions.
3. India and Pakistan might well have gone to war, leading to millions of deaths. This one is unknowable, of course, but Bush’s engagement in the region clearly helped maintain a fragile relative peace.
Okay, Bush hasn’t been perfect. But when a Republican chooses to engage the enemy, it’s a newsflash when one person dies. When Democrats choose to cut and run, it’s not mentioned when thousands or even millions die as a result. Why is Bush supposed to be blamed for the four thousand American troops lost in Iraq, but the Democratic leadership of Congress in the seventies gets no blame for the millions dead after the hasty U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam?
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