David French at National Review
responds to Steve Bannon’s criticism of President George W. Bush’s security and
foreign policy team on 60 Minutes.
How quickly some of us
forget. How arrogant some of us have become.
Those of you old enough to
remember the shock and horror of September 11, answer me this: If I had told
you that the George W. Bush’s anti-terror policies would be so effective that
after that terrible day jihadist terrorists would kill only three Americans on
U.S. soil for the remainder of his term, would you judge his policies a
success, or would you call him an “idiot” and hold him and his foreign-policy
team in “complete contempt?”
I know my answer. I know the
fair answer. In the days and weeks after 9/11, fear gripped America. We knew
al-Qaeda possessed an immense safe haven in Afghanistan. We had no idea of what
other plots might unfold next. After all, our intelligence agencies had just
missed the worst attack on American soil since the British burned Washington,
D.C., during the War of 1812. We believed that the 9/11 attacks were the first
of a series of assaults to come. That they never came is to the eternal credit
of Bush and his team. Steve Bannon has a different answer, and it’s ridiculous.
On 60 Minutes last night, the man credited with shaping Trump’s “America First”
brand of politics clearly and unequivocally declared his disdain for George W.
Bush and Bush’s entire national-security team, calling them “idiots” and saying
that he holds them “in contempt, total and complete contempt.”
You can also read an earlier post on President Bush and the Iraq War via the below link:
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