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...more appropriate and conservative response to 9/11 would have realized that when the government addresses a problem, it needs to do so in the most direct and efficient way possible in order to minimize the cost to citizens in taxes, inconveniences, and, in this case, blood. While some of the administration’s actions conformed to this principle—shutting down Afghanistan’s terrorist camps through military force and initiating intelligence reform—a sense of self-importance led the administration to embark on a very indirect, inefficient, and decades-long campaign...
...more fundamental and longer-term problem is that in the process the administration has been enabled by the progressive surrender of the political, intellectual, and emotional independence of both the conservative base and Congressional Republicans. President George W. Bush may have made the bad decisions, but he has been enabled by what you might call the Hannitizing of the party base and legislators—the nearly conscious willingness to become so indoctrinated that the facts begin to matter less than the party line interpretation of those facts, such that one forsakes the ends for which one initially joined...
Forget immigration, lobbyists, and even pages—this is the real story of how we became everything that we hated in 1994. Worst of all, most Republicans won’t even acknowledge that the problem exists. Let’s hope November is a really loud wake-up call...
...Conservative Face-Off in Kentucky Voters in this state's 4th congressional district have no problem with the values of Republican incumbent Geoff Davis. They have a problem with his party, and that's why his equally conservative Democratic challenger just...
...history, culture and composition, and experience of previous invasions - and of the failure of the U.S. leadership to grasp those specifics. It has nothing to do with American experiences elsewhere, and in fact continuing to view events there through the Vietnam prism may have actually contributed to the problem...