Well, if you want my opinion (and I'm sure you don't), I feel much safer now. We really needed a different approach. The world hated Bush, but they like the big O! Bush was pissing them off and putting our troops in more danger. I think you need to read "The Dark Side"....here's a review from Amazon.....
“The Dark Side is a gripping, meticuously researched and deeply disturbing book that vindicates the observation of the great Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis that ‘the greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.’ Mayer notes that the Bush Administration was repeatedly warned by experts in military and the FBI as well as by loyal Republican lawyers inside the Administration that ‘the short-term benefits of its extralegal approach to fighting terrorism would have tragically destructive long-term consequences for both the rule of law and America’s interests in the world.’ Instead of heeding this well-intentioned advvice, the Administration ‘invoked the fear flowing from the [9/11] attacks’ and ’sanctioned coerced confessions, extrajuidicial detention, and other violations of individuals’ liberties that had been prohibited since the country’s founding.’ Provoking governments to overreact is a common objective of terrorist organizations. If that was what al Qaeda sought to do on 9/11, it hit the jackpot.”–Parameters Magazine, the United States Army’s Senior Professional Journal
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