re: #150 Cato the Elder

No, this didn’t happen under Bush.

But it’s been brewing for years.

What would Bush have done to stop it? Sent a sternly-worded letter? Commissioned Condee to deliver it? Offered the Pakistanis some shiny new hardware?

You can blame this on Obama if you like. The provinces in question along with the whole picture in Afghano spun out of control a long time ago.

Sadly true. The Bush administration had a temporary edge after 9/11 - they shocked the Muslim world, including Pakistan, with America’s unexpectedly strong response. But in the years since then, that sharp line got increasingly blurry.

And now we have a President who seems very weak to the Muslim world, a President who goes on Arab television and says, “We’ve made mistakes. Won’t you forgive us?”

I think we’re going to see this kind of stuff accelerating in the near future. I’m not very confident that Obama will be able to handle it.