I agree with you Thom, except about Afghanistan. After 9/11 the American people were so angry and hurt that no president could have avoided an invasion. If Bush had tried he would have been swept aside by public pressure on Congress. The fact that he and Cheney handled both the war and occupation with breathtaking incompetence is a different issue, though in retrospect not surprising.
I agree with you Thom, except about Afghanistan. After 9/11 the American people were so angry and hurt that no president could have avoided an invasion. If Bush had tried he would have been swept aside by public pressure on Congress. The fact that he and Cheney handled both the war and occupation with breathtaking incompetence is a different issue, though in retrospect not surprising.
I agree with you Thom, except about Afghanistan. After 9/11 the American people were so angry and hurt that no president could have avoided an invasion. If Bush had tried he would have been swept aside by public pressure on Congress. The fact that he and Cheney handled both the war and occupation with breathtaking incompetence is a different issue, though in retrospect not surprising.