BTW, I sincerely believe any President real or prospective (looking at you Al Gore) would easily have made “over reaction” motivated mistakes in the weeks and months after 9/11. Maybe not torture.

Maybe we would have invaded Pakistan too, and fought a short battlefield nuclear war. That could have been the big mistake as bad or worse than invading Iraq for one example.

Maybe we would have decimated Afghanistan, looked at the history of occupiers there and just walked away to let them die & suffer under the warlords unaided by the rest of the world. Or who knows what might have been?

re: #31 I’m a Mavrik!
Yes that is true. But I just could not hold out with lies I don’t think. They would get the truthful words from my mouth and then who knows what all else. Not a very masculine a thing to say but that’s a poor substitute for sincerity anyway.