" the neoconservative response to 9/11 was to turn a war against stateless terrorism into military attacks on Muslim states, I realized that the Bush administration was committing a strategic blunder with open-ended disastrous consequences for the US that, in the end, would destroy Bush, the Republican Party, and the conservative movement."
Have to say, that's my problem with the response too. There were many ways to respond to 9/11, but we chose to shoot ourselves (and Iraq) in the foot. We should, imo, have focused on the terrorist organizations themselves, all of them, not just Al Qaeda, and tried to forge alliances with as many nations as possible to go after the funding for terrorist networks- which could have been done in arcane and almost invisible ways through targeted attention to international banking. I continue to believe that changes in drug laws in this country would kick the props out from under some terrorist organizations that rely on narco profits, but no one really cares about that. From what I've read, though, narco profits are a huge force in funding international terror operations. |
