Even though I am NO particular fan of GWB, WHO exactly should we have defeated to end the scourge of radical Islam terrorism forever??
Yours, TMN78247
> WHO exactly should we have defeated to end the scourge of radical Islam terrorism forever?? <
Good question. As I see it, this is not a war of territory, but of ideas. And George W. Bush set the tone when just after 9/11 he said “Islam is peace”.
We lost the war of ideas right there! We needed a verbal Patton. Perhaps Rudy Giuliani would have fit the bill. We needed someone to say, and keep repeating: “Every last hijacker on 9/11 was a Muslim. Islam needs to drastically reform, or be shunned by the world.”
That might have flown, given the outrage after 9/11. But instead we were told “Islam is peace.”
FDR had130 land divisions, 2500 ships, unlimited industrial power, and a declaration of war promising the defeat of the attacker,
Bush had 12 divisions, 260 ships, inability to produce war materiel in volume, and no declaration of war, and he pursued friendly relations with the attackers (Saudi Arabia and Pakistan) while attacking two states (Afghanistan and Iraq) that had nothing to do with it. Yes, 9/11 was planned in Afghanistan but it was also planned in Germany, why attack one and nit the other.
The two situations are not comparable.
Please remember. it is fashionable, stylish even, to bash President Bush on Free Republic
“Even though I am NO particular fan of GWB, WHO exactly should we have defeated to end the scourge of radical Islam terrorism forever??“
Everyone asks the wrong question.
Carthago delenda est.