And which position would that be?
Gingrich is the one that's incredibly naive about this..
So let's see, in two post you can't dispute his point's, are you good for a third???
I'm sure you can...
What point?
Bush used the actions of a handful of stateless criminals to further the PNAC agenda of knocking over the oil rich Iraq to keep their resources from falling into the hands of the Chinese and the Russians.
But that sort of metastasized into something else..something that Osama Bin Laden was actually looking for..a global war between the west and the arab world.
Bush's nation building exercise failed miserably in both Afghanistan and Iraq. What it very nearly did was create an all out civil war in Iraq. And Afghanistan is still in ruins.
This all war all the time footing has created a great deal of animosity as well and radicalized a good many people. I suppose this is great for those who's business it is to support wars but it's bleeding the country dry. And it never needed to be that way.
Had Bush's reaction been proportional to the threat and had he made the necessary moves to assuage the outrage, this would have been squashed long ago.
Instead he left a crap sandwich for Obama to deal with.