Nothing good has come from Bush's war. Not Bush II's war but Bush I's war.

[zipplewrath]

2. Well, you're talking about the "chain"

You're starting at a link in the long chain, ignoring all that came before.

Yes, there is a direct series of decisions that connects all of that. But there were many points in that chain where the links could have been "broken". But that chain starts WAY back in history, and again there have been multiple opportunities to break that chain.

Until we, as a culture really, get over the idea that we can kill our way out of our problems and into peace and prosperity, this chain will keep growing longer. We expanded our war in Afghanistan after GWB, and it really has accomplished nothing. We've tried to assassinate away terrorism, only to create even more terrorists. We think drones somehow will empower us to kill more effectively. It has not.

Wage law enforcement, not war.