Bush's Tragic Legacy: How 9/11 Triggered America's Decline: A Commentary by Gregor Peter Schmitz in Washington Sad, really sad -- that the Terrorists got exactly what they want...
All you did was copy and paste a commentary and added ten words of your own to it. This is not a valid thread- it requires more of your thought.
I won't give this trash much time, but I will give you a couple of factoids you so easily overlooked. Bush may have been given a surplus, but he was also given about a year and a half recession from the Clinton administration. The advent of 9/11 immediately lost over 1 million jobs. Lets not forget that the 19 terrorists were given illegal access to America under Clinton's watch, in which they manuevered their way into airports to take flight lessons. Lets also not forget that Clinton lucked out serving when America had a dot.com boom which of course fizzled out after the 9/11 attack. So one needs to put those facts into perspective before going any further with that useless diatribe from the OP.
This guy comes from the Rhode Island of Nation States that by some quirk of historical fate wound up the capital of the EU and he thinks he's among the Gods of the world. Forgive him for his ivory tower ways, he doesn't know any better.
Belgium is best known for its cruel and exploitative administration of the Congo. http://www.yale.edu/gsp/colonial/belgian_congo/index.html
As opposed to what? Turning the other cheek and saying, "Don't do that again." People like the candyass who wrote this article are pathetic. They are part of a deeper cultural flaw in modern America. One that champions weakness and sees all forms of strength, force, and justice as "mean" and "bad." This guy doesn't have an alternate idea of a better way to have handled 9/11. He's just "seeking to find a pretext - any pretext - to condemn, attack, and blame Bush / Republicans / America" for their own misfortune. He's part of this pathological borg-like hive-mind anti-war hippie flower child mentality that infects so many weak people in the western world today who have convinced themselves that everything can be solved with diplomacy, campfires, and singalongs. Go load up your bong and toke yourself stupid, Moonflower. The grownups have a country to run.