(SW Fla:) November will provide a chance to correct some bad decisions

[salin]

November will provide a chance to correct some bad decisions

GUEST OPINION
Published by news-press.com on May 29, 2004

We all felt and still feel the desperate need to strike out at those who hurt our country and changed us forever on 9-11. That said, decisiveness in and of itself is no measure of leadership.

A true measure of courage and strength in wartime is the ability to hold one’s fire until it is clear we are aiming at the real enemy. Then we hit and hit hard. In short, we don’t screw up.

The Bush administration, anxious to do anything, thinking that pre-emptive war with any threat was the answer to al-Qaida, led us into a war with the wrong enemy. What’s more baffling is the way we’ve blindly followed, despite the facts that spill out around us.

And here we are. Nearly all pre-war presumptions proven wrong: no weapons of mass destruction, no link to al-Qaida. No “cakewalk” minus insurgence.

Bad intelligence. Bad planning. Incredible arrogance in anticipating the cultural and sociological impact of invasion on Iraq. A litany of failures in which the nightmare of Abu Ghraib and Ahmed Chalabi become simply sidebars of the Bad News Bears administration.

much more: http://www.news-press.com/news/opinion/040529guestop.html

[jbfam4]

1. Excellent article

Thanks for posting this.

[freetobegay]

2. Thanks for givine me some faith back

in where I live.

[BeachBuckeye]

3. Where I live too!

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