There is a good chance that over the last eight years you have been handed flyers or sent emails speaking out over the War on Terror. There wasn’t one person who wasn’t critical of the Bush administration’s decision to send soldiers onto foreign soil. Of course, no one could be blamed for being critical, because any time American men and women are asked to risk their lives there has to be some sort of objection.
Now that we are almost eight full years into the War on Terror, there has to be some question as to whether Bush might have been right after all. Look, there isn’t a way to keep score of a war, but that doesn’t mean that there haven’t been victories.
It was an oversight by the Bush administration to go in looking for weapons of mass destruction but removing Saddam from power wasn’t a bad thing. The person was an evil dictator and ridding the world of him was a good thing.
Many said that the president was reactionary when it comes to his response to 9/11, but when you examine it, it was the only play he had. The country was outraged and looking for justice. We had to do what was right in order to protect the integrity of our soil. This meant rigorously attacking those that attacked us. He knew who the culprit was and mobilized troops to attack those in power and those responsible.
The reality is that we won’t really know for years just what the implications are of the War on Terror. Sometimes what seemed to be futile can have a long lasting impact. The point here is that you can’t jump to conclusions. You have to give it time to see if the War on Terror worked.
