Rich, gloomily asked: > So you're saying that neither major party in the US is > competent? How reassuring...
Both parties are incompetent in many respects, but I'll limit discussion here to prosecution of the war with Islam. The American people in general did not consider Islamic terrorism to be a serious issue pre 9/11. It was treated as an annoyance, but not a real threat. If there's any incompetence here, it's on the part of the American voter who cared a lot more about Monica and Enron than the Cole or Beirut or the first try at the WTC. Any attempt by any administration to ratchet up the war to the levels it deserved would have met with huge politcal opposition. It wouldn't just have been risky, but impossible, for Clinton or Bush to really go after these guys before 9/11. There's no question that the Dhimmicrats are incompetent to carry on this war. They just don't get it, any more than they did before 9/11. If they did get it, they would have nominated Leiberman instead of the Massachusetts Munster. Whatever mistakes Bush might make, he gets it. He's not going off in fundamentally the wrong direction.
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