The war in Afghanistan is seven years old and for the past several weeks we have read reports of our drones attacking Taliban and al Qaeda targets with missiles inside Pakistan. Why now seven years into the war and not before? What is behind these recent attacks? We always knew the Taliban/al Qaeda were there in that region.
The answer lies in the type of person we have as President. Mr. Bush's performance and reckless behavior in fighting the war on terror is dismal. He faces the prospect of leaving office in a few months with the lowest approval rating of any President in recent memory. The reason for the recent attacks in Pakistan is a political decision by Bush to finally try to get bin Laden before he leaves office to improve his rating and salvage his Presidency. One will remember it was Mr. Bush himself shortly after 9-11 who said bin Laden was wanted dead or alive but then failed to pursue him.
Seven years of war in Afghanistan and almost six years of war in Iraq have already been recorded in history. Those years can not be rewritten and history will not be kind to Mr. Bush. The American people gave Mr. Bush two chances to serve and uplift America a its people, but he lacked the wisdom, character and humility to serve as President.
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