Cheney and Limbaugh keep claiming Bush’s tough foreign policy, including water-boarding and making terrorists afraid to attack the US, kept the US safe. Perhaps instead Bush appeased bin Laden. He removed US troops from sacred Saudi territory in 2003, never invaded Pakistan, and helped bin Laden make moderate Muslims more militant, even tended to help a little bin Laden’s goal of a huge war between civilizations. Before 9/11 bin Laden warned of dire consequences unless the US stopped desecrating Islam, with US troops in Saudi Arabia. Any planed fireworks in the US, had to be modified in 2003 to make sure it didn’t lead to, a temporarily invigorated by a second terror attack, US going back into Saudi Arabia. Many Saudi’s were upset at the sight of skimpily dressed female soldiers, but in 2003 al Qaeda attacked foreign contractors, and Saudi Arabia couldn’t function if only strict Muslims were allowed to work there, so bin Laden didn’t get to march back home to the cheers of those who were offended by US troops.

If for years no terror attack against the US was in the immediate future, captured prisoners could only give out garbage to the US interrogators, because when they told the truth that they knew of no terror attack planed, they were assumed to be lying.

Obama has a tough job straitening out this mess, and in the deadly game of internationally poker I want to give him every benefit of the doubt. However, there is no way for the next four years for the US to spend ever more money on smarter and smarter weapons without going bankrupt like the war in Afghanistan did to the USSR.

One problem is the more Obama does right, the more al Qaeda may risk a future terror attack on the US to keep its long term goals for the future alive. Meaning US troops out of Iraq and Afghanistan would make al Qaeda feel even more desperate because they could no longer count on US bankruptcy giving them a second chance.

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