Not disagreeing. Hind sight is 20/20. Were you behind Bush/Cheney in 2001? After the close call with Al ‘massage this’ Gore in 2000? I respected Cheney then as I did Rumsfeld for bold action. It was Bush and the ROP theme that turned me off, and ultimately, over the last two decades, took a swift victory and turned it into Vietnam x 10.
Yes of course, it was more of a knee-jerk, anti-Democrat thing back then. But since Trump came along, a lot of the masks have been lifted.