He is right.
Libertarian foreign policy would be a disaster. RonPaul Liberaltarians are even worse.
Peace through Strength is the best way to stay at peace, not to mention is spurs hi tech job spinoff and puts our engineers to work on constitutional priorities.
Afghan we had to go into, after 911. Iraq, wasn’t as strong a case, but it would have been negligence for Bush to ignore the Intel that he was given.
However, after it was obvious that the WMD either wasn’t there or was sneaked out to Syria, we should have given Iraq 6 months to stabilize their government, and we should should have been gone.
By his decision to get us into Iraq, Bush risked the Republican majority. We subsequently lost the House and Senate in ‘06, and the White House in ‘08. We are now saddled with a mountain of debt and Obamacare. The upcoming election looks like a toss-up right now. This country may fall into real economic decline, the suspension of civil liberties, communism, and even the possibility of secession. With a weakened U.S., Iran will be emboldened. Rumsfeld fired the economist who refused to testify to Congress that the War in Iraq would be cheap and pay for itself. If nothing else, Rumsfeld owes the nation an apology for being so very wrong about that war. Bush and Obama both owe the nation apologies for “mission creep” in Afghanistan, a place that we could never have done anything about (other than kill the bastards, which we did, thank you, within a few months of their attack on us.) But, really what will an apology mean if we lose this fall’s election.