It's true. There was a huge opportunity to clean house that was squandered right after 9/11. The incompetency of the CIA, FBI and other National Security organizations. The complicity of the State Dept always being in favor of negotiating with terrorists.
The RATS played their hand well on an unsuspecting Bush with unity in the public eye and division behind closed doors.
I do remember times Bush attacked even fellow Republicans when they were rightfully calling Dems treasonous. What for? To keep a bipartisan tone in Washington D.C.? We all know Bush campaigned on being a uniter not a divider but things changed more than what I think he realized.
Now with the appointment of Gates I'm really getting nervous. It sounds at this point as though he's in favor of negotiating with the terrorist regimes still in existence in the ME. We can only hope that the Repubs left in Congress will not let his nomination go well and that Rummy has to stay on a lot longer than expected. This will give us time to find a pro-WOT candidate who can swing this back around. I still think that's a possibility. I at least want it to be so. Allowing the status quo of Sadr, Iran and Syria is suicidal.
Saner minds must prevail.
Don't blame you
With Mexico we kicked butt when Santa Ana killed Americans in MEXICO.
With Spain we kicked butt when SOMEONE killed Americans in a Spanish colony.
With Germany we kicked butt when they killed some limeys smuggling munitions on a passenger ship.
With Japan we wussed out until they attacked the homeland. Then we found our ..... and kicked butt in the correct manner again.
With North Korea (China) we just wussed out for 50 plus years.
With Vietnam wussed out after 58,000 brave GI's died to WIN the war militarily for us.
We wussed in Iran.
Grenada and Panama were non wusses, but Reagan could have won sending the San Francisco PD, so national attitude doesn't count.
We wussed in Gulf 1 for another North Korea in the middle east.
We Wussed in Somalia.
We gave air support to the Muslim terrorists in Kosovo.
The direction of the trend is frightening, after another, even more reprehensible, attack on the homeland continent, we have put wuss into turbo overdrive in the race to surrender.