Bush & Co: Terror, Inc.
компютриNo End In Sight is a well-made feature-length documentary film which reviews the mistakes made by the Bush Administration in Iraq. I just finished watching it, and it prompted me to write the following observations.
The biggest frustration I have with Bush is that he and his dwindling followers convince themselves that he has been fighting a war on terror, and has made us safer, when in fact his bumbling missteps and criminal neglect to lead his nation’s military has made us much more vulnerable, creating more ill-will and terrorist motivation than if he had just done nothing at all after September 11, 2001.
By initially abdicating his commander-in-chief role to Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Bremer, and Dick Cheney, Bush allowed the looting of Iraq’s cities, the destruction of an ancient culture’s treasures, and the disbanding of Iraq’s army, effectively insuring the creation of an insurgency of half a million unemployed, angry military men.
Had Iraq’s politically neutral but highly skilled administrative sector been allowed to stay on in the newly forming nation, the looting and loss of priceless treasures would probably been forgiven, eventually. But then disbanding 500,000 combat veterans, firing them all without any compensation or new employment, and allowing them to arm themselves by looting the hundreds of well-stocked, unguarded armories across the country was Big Mistake.
Bush declared major combat operations to be victoriously over under the Mission Accomplished banner, but not long after that a country full of furious, frustrated, battle-hardened breadwinners was ready to blow holes in the incompetent American management of Iraq, the country we occupied in order to defeat terrorism.
In the film, one Iraqi man on the street says, “It was bad under Saddam, but this is worse.” Indeed. And the United States is more hated now, than ever, by those who mean us harm, and less safe against terrorist attacks, with a military left broken and demoralized, and an electorate politically polarized.
I’m not sure how Bush could have more effectively screwed us all over, other than exactly what he did for the last 7 years. I’m not sure that all the damage he has done can ever be repaired. The next person to sit in his office will have to spend years just getting our international reputation and military effectiveness back to pre-Bush levels. Whatever real progress the next president hoped to make will be overshadowed by the herculean effort they will need to expend just healing over the brokenness and corruption allowed into the executive branch by this most incompetent of all U.S. Presidents, number 43.
Good luck, Obama, or Clinton, or McCain.
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