Not hindsight really. This was all known at the time. Also, there were several commentators who advised against dubbing this national effort a “War on Terror.”
Real ‘hindsight’ would have been to suggest that US forces should never have left Saudi Arabia after the first Gulf War. IOWs, ask the King what he plans to do about it if we decide to stay?
But we were needed and even, kindly held afterwards.
Saudis are prey to al qaeda. They bend in fear. And work out agreements constinuously to keep harmony, tenuous as it is.
We are in a WAR ON TERROR.
It is the absolute best name for it Tallguy, imo, because we are fighting radical groups of muslim extremists who rotate countries, as they hide and plan and plot and engage.
If we limit it to a war on Iraq, or Afghanistan, or Syria, or on and on...then the terrorists move there bases to a neighbor.
The war on terror is what it is. And I agree with this name. And I agree with how our President handled it....and am distraught as I watch uhbama do everything in his power to see that it all fails, that freedom and democracy of some order will not touch the children and ignite fires of living that destroy terror within their own society .
President Bush was right. President Reagan was right. The only way to destroy terrorism is to light the fire of freedom and hope where it resides.