America’s Response to 9/11 Was Wrong – Yet We Are Still Doing the Same!

By Ted Belman at americanthinker.com

…What the Bush administration was attempting to do was to attack the practitioners and the countries that supported them without taking on the ideology that motivated and informed them.  But if they were to declare war on Islam just as previous administrations had declared war on Communism or Fascism, what exactly would that mean?  In the latter case, America set out to demonstrate that her capitalistic system and "We the People" form of government was superior.  In the former case, the U.S. would have to utterly reject that part of Islam that imposes sharia and jihad, preferring instead the Judeo-Christian value system.  This was a war Bush was not prepared to wage.

In hindsight, nothing permanent was accomplished, but the cost in American lives and treasure exceeded many times the costs of 9/11.

Afghanistan is returning to the Taliban.  Pakistan is destabilized.  Iraq is heavily influenced by Iran and Russia.  The Islamists have gone from strength to strength and have infiltrated the U.S. government.

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