The Bush administration opened with a second Pearl Harbor, ended with a second Great Crash and contained a second Vietnam in the middle.The book review seems to suggest that the book is actually rather sympathetic towards Bush's presidency, though it seems that much of the time, he was more of a spectator than a leader.
And then there is this, from Politico:
As one senior official who came to rue his involvement in Iraq put it, “The only reason we went into Iraq, I tell people now, is we were looking for somebody’s ass to kick. Afghanistan was too easy.”So we went into a three-trillion dollar war because those clowns needed to tack some more skins on their walls? They needed a more difficult war, one that cost more American lives, to slake their bloodlust?
That was it? We engaged in a war of aggression for that?
Can we get going with the war crimes trials, now?
2 comments:
If Afghanistan was so damn easy, why then did we fuck it up so thoroughly?
Oh, that's right, I remember now, Petraeus and his COIN strategy turned it into the longest war in US history. Aren't we still kinda over there shooting until next year?
-Doug in Oakland
i thought it was oil and minerals. in either case, money in someones pocket
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