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Originally posted by taxwonk
If Bush had that "vision" thing down, he wouldn't have us bogged down in Iraq right now. He invaded Iraw as a smokescreen to cover the fat that he failed in one of his main objectives in Afghanistan. OBL is still out there and so is a large part of his leadership team. Meanwhile, in Iraq, Bush is recruiting new terrorists every day.
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It sounds like the problem you have is more of a tactical problem than a vision thing problem. I honestly believe that he has a vision of preemptively confronting our enemies, within reason, wherever they exist, while bringing democracy to the mideast as a way to bring accountability to the leadership there. While I'm pretty sure Kerry does not have that same vision, my bigger problem is that I can't figure out how to describe what he's thinking in one sentence. While, getting OBL is highly important as both a reactive and a preemptive measure, I think the bigger realpolitik is to start working on every threatening regime that harbors a credible threat and a realizable purpose of harming us.
And, of course, it this had been handled better, we might have obtained a much better reaction within Iraq early on. But that's a tactical problem (specifically, we aren't letting the marines use their tactics: see today's LA Times article on what happened in Fallujah, for example), not really the Vision thing.
