re: #177 Dark_Falcon

That’s worth remembering. He didn’t imagine having to deal with Radical Islam as the defining issue of his presidency. 9/11 was so huge that it changed the course of his administration and meant that it is precisely than struggle which defined the presidency of George W. Bush.

I remember a friend, much farther to the left than I, commenting about a week after 9/11, “I’m kind of proud of Bush. He’s standing tall, and saying the right things, and making me feel that we can get through this. He’s being presidential.”