As Long as We’re Talking Politics :: August 3rd, 2004 ::
As America debates the Bush Administration’s effectiveness in military issues generally, and the war on terror specifically, I think it’s important to keep the current situtation in perspective. As my dad points out, history does a good job of providing that perspective. He says:
Anyhow, either [President Bush] is hiding something or really doesn’t want the war on terror to end or have any transparency. Do you know that three years after the attack on Pearl Harbor we had pretty much defeated the Axis powers?
Now, I will admit that the current war is different from the one fought sixty years ago. I would even go so far as to say that the Bush Administration’s motives were on the whole good (i.e., not necessarily outrightly obstructionist). However, I find it hard to discern any real progress on the part of the Bush administration over the past three years. We should judge this Administration’s effectiveness in the War on Terror based on its outcomes, shouldn’t we?
UPDATE: you know, I realized that my assertion that the Bush Administration’s lacked any progress in security issues might benefit from some specifics. Luckily, I didn’t have to look too hard for those specifics: U.S. relied on old data in raising terror alert.
