HOW NEO-CONS PUT THE WORLD AT RISK
Former President George W. Bush; Vice-President, Dick Cheney; Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld; Deputy Secretary of Defense, Paul Wolfowitz; and Deputy Secretary of Defense, Richard Perle may have left us with a world which is more unsafe than it was on September 10th, 2001. The poorly planed war in Afghanistan and its subsequent abandonment may have left the world in a much more precarious position than any other single thing that could have been done. The hell-bent focus on going to Iraq by this group of people may have destabilized the only nuclear-armed Muslim-dominated country in the world. What’s worse, that destabilization may have given 100 nuclear weapons to Osama Bin Laden himself.
If Steve Kroft’s segment on 60 Minutes tonight doesn’t give you chills, I would love to know why. If you still think the war in Iraq was a good idea, I would love to know why. If you believe dropping the ball in Afghanistan to invade a non-threatening Iraq was a good idea, I would love to know why. If mismanaging the war in Afghanistan and allowing the Taliban and Al-Qaeda to get away was in any way something you believe history will judge a success, I would love to know why.
The group I just mentioned will probably make excuses that include hind-site, biased media, bad intelligence or we inherited the problem.
How do you think history will judge them? What do you think?