Voice of Lillpop "Over the past 25 years, the American people have exercised extremely poor judgment by electing two members of the Bush clan to the US presidency.
"Both presidencies have produced calamitous results.
"GW Bush, in particular, did irreparable damage with his adamant refusal to enforce the nation’s borders and immigration laws against invaders from south of our prestigious land.
"So narrow was W’s vision, that, even after the Islamic terrorist attack of 9/11, he blithely refused to take control of the US borders, preferring instead to pursue his wrong-headed, racist view that Hispanics who invade America are generally “good-hearted, hard working” amigos who should be welcomed, rather than deported, notwithstanding the rule of law and well being of US citizens." ....
I must say, however, that I loved the way GW struck fear into the hearts of dictators such as Muammar Gadhaffi (Gadhafi, Muammar Muhammad Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi).
Plus, he loved and honored his troops. TD
Victor Davis Hanson There is a pastime among liberal pundits — the latest is Nicholas Kristof — to quote a new center left global ranking (with unbiased titles such as “The Social Progress Imperative”) and then to decry that the United States is behind its major industrial competitors in things like “Internet Access” and “Ecosystem sustainability.” The subtext of these rants is that an illiberal, reactionary U.S. does not spend enough on government entitlements to promote parity, equality and social justice among its citizenry. These pessimistic rankings increase the angst about the American condition when viewed from scowling perches in Washington or New York.
"Ever since the end of the Cold War, there has been an assumption that conventional warfare between reasonably developed nation-states had been abolished. During the 1990s, it was expected that the primary purpose of the military would be operations other than war, such as peacekeeping, disaster relief and the change of oppressive regimes. After 9/11, many began speaking of asymmetric warfare and "the long war." Under this model, the United States would be engaged in counterterrorism activities in a broad area of the Islamic world for a very long time. Peer-to-peer conflict seemed obsolete." ...
