Juan Cole discusses the ineptness of Bush, especially in the context of al-Qaeda, and notes that:
9/11, 7/7 and 8/30 On the fourth-year anniversary... ...Al-Qaeda simply hasn't been a priority for Bush. His first priority, all along, has been cutting taxes on his rich friends...
Four years after September 11, al-Qaeda's leadership should have been behind bars or dead. Four years after September 11, Afghanistan should have been stabilized. Four years after September 11, the government should have been ready to save lives in an urban disaster.
Bush recently started likening his poorly conceived and misnamed “war on terror” to World War II.
What his handlers have forgotten is how long World War II lasted for the United States.
Four years.In four years, Roosevelt and allies defeated Nazi Germany and imperial Japan. In four years, Bush hasn't managed even to corner Bin Laden and a few hundred scruffy terrorists; or to extract himself from the deserts of Iraq; or to put the government's finances in good order so that it can deal with crises like Katrina.
Why Bush hasn't been run out of Washington on a rail, covered in tar and feathers, and beaten with sticks continues to baffle me.
