Bush has directed two wars and toppled two regimes in the last 5 years. I think he knows how to win wars.
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And more regimes to follow....I pray.
"Bush has directed two wars and toppled two regimes in the last 5 years. I think he knows how to win wars."
Only Allah knows how many dead Islamofacists showed up in hell expecting their 72 virgins from Zark Pig to the daily extermination of Islamo trash in Iraq and Afghanistan.
And he's let the media turn one of those wins into an effective loss that virtually ties our hand from launching a further war if needed. He's let the media kick his ass daily and commit multiple acts of treason without being held to any accountability. So I think not.
Reagan caught hell from the media yet managed to effectively communicate and fight back when necessary. Sorry, but ultimately this administration will be considered mediocre. President Bush in many ways has the vision of Reagan and Lincoln, but all too often the effectiveness of Carter. Good intentions are not enough.
A shame this is 2006 instead of 2009. We need a strong and effective leader now, a Churchill. We need a Giuliani, because as Steyn points out, war is ultimately about the will of nations, not simply technical superiority. How many years has the media been allowed to redefine reality, while the admin's response was deer-in-the-headlight-eyed Scott McClellen? Yes, Tony Snow is a vast improvement, but how many years too late?
One can arguing that all this public handwringing about what in actuality is an amazingly low loss of civilian life in the current Israeli war is simply diplomatic posturing and 'playing the game', but it conveys weakness. The President's poll numbers are down not so much because of individual policies but because many have questions as to the level of his admin's competence and effectivenes. And spare me the usual apologists' claims whenever they get in a corner that somehow someday we'll miraculously discover that it was all a big 'rope-a-dope'.
Thank goodness President Bush sees the parallel to the 1930's, and that idiots like Straw are Chamberlain reincarnated. (Yes, the "Turn every corner of Islam into nuclear glass" crowd are also just as idiotic.) But he's also made mistakes, and the current response and approach is conflicting and conveys weakness, while allowing the media to define perceptions and parameters.