DGL,
re: Assuming you were in the President's shoes in the twelve or so months following 9/11 what action would you have taken? This is not intended as an argumentative question, but rather one which elicits your thinking assuming you were in the Oval Office.
I'll answer from a military point of view, not from a political point of view, because I think that's what you are asking. And it's not what I would have done, it's what I think some of our great leaders would have done. Kennedy, Reagan, Eisenhower, Clinton, Nixon. Most of the great Presidents we have had in my life.
Put yourself in the time and place, right afer 9/11. There had never been more support for the US among our allies. Now it's time to focus, completely focus, on the enemy. Like our great wars. You call on the folks we have defended in their time of need to eliminate a very specific enemy.
And then we put all our resources, and our allies resouces, into Afghanistan. And we take the casualties, but we get bin Laden and his cohorts. We do whatever it takes, however long it takes. We stay until it is done. Because that is just and that is right, and nobody in our country or the world doesn't understand. Then, we are done, and our soldiers and our allies soldiers go home.
I'm curious what other folks would have done. Would anyone have attacked Iraq in response to 9/11?
John |
