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Originally Posted by Stompy
You can't say Bush has done a good job preventing terrorism if an attack doesn't happen. These attacks aren't exactly going on day-by-day. These things take time, years, to plan out. We're not really any safer today than we were 5 years ago except for the fact that us people are more aware of the reality of terrorism - hardly a "good job" by Bush.
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Bush has the US military and other ancillary forces out there killing Jihadists in places OTHER than the US. That, in and of itself, is a very good thing. Why? Because there's a limited supply of people willing to kill themselves for their religion, and every one of them we kill over there is one more we don't have to kill over here. Bush has parts of the third world scared to DEATH that we're going to go after them next. Why do you think Libya suddenly "saw the light" WRT their WMD program? It's because they didn't want us to stop on our way back from Iraq and kick the shit out of them on general principles. Getting the Libyan WMD program to go away is a good thing, and Bush didn't even have to invade Libya to do it.
Iraq and Afghanistan are essentially "jihadi sponges". They're sucking the whacked out fundie islamics who want to die gloriously into battle on almost equal terms which WE set, instead of allowing them to plot and attack our civilian population base on their terms. This in and of itself is a good thing for us, even though it's kind of hard on the Iraqi people.