I wonder why you're addressing that post to me. I don't think I said Bush is the worst president in US history, even if I think that's likely - on more grounds than foreign policy. I certainly won't debate the history of warfare since 1941, even though the letter-writer has some weird ideas. I will comment on this:
President Bush has liberated two countries, crushed the Taliban
Funny, the Iraqis don't feel liberated. Have you looked at the protesting crowds in the papers? Outside the Sunni Triangle, they're glad to be rid of Saddam, but most believe they've got a new yoke on their shoulders, the US occupation, and they don't like it. You know, you really can't call an occupied country "liberated." As for the Taliban, they and the warlords are resurgent in Afghanistan, the US having walked away in order to attack Iraq. But you're right that, according to reports, Al Qaeda is crippled. That doesn't matter much if a hundred Osama bin Ladens have been created in Iraq's wake, as Mubarak predicted. Terrorism has gone up, not down. |
