I watched the television screen covetously as President Bush delivered a final, 48-hour ultimatum to Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. How did bin Laden want us to respond and how could we have avoided just such a path? Suppose, for a moment, that President Bush had taken the high road, a path of restraint focused on twin tracks. Two weeks after 9/11, President Bush vapidly suggestedinstead that this country’s citizens should respond by getting in airplanes again and “enjoy[ing] America’s great destination spots. He has written a memoir and critical analysis of the Iraq War, Ghost Riders of Baghdad: Soldiers, Civilians, and the Myth of the Surge.

Source: Huffington Post November 26, 2017 23:03 UTC