good point mithus, but have you noticed that despite obamas promises to close guantanamo, end bushes evil war etc he has instead expanded it? i believe that drone assassinations are up eightfold since 2008. he also gets props for ordering the attack on osama by assault rather than by bomb.

i think that once he got into office he got access to certain reports that made him change his tune re: the war on terror. also, democrats realized they were viewed as weak on nat sec, so any more attacks while they were in charge would doom their party.

lastly, love or hate em, the wars in afghanistan and iraq, as well as the secret wars in yemen, pakistan, etc have critically weakened al queda and its sympathizers. you could say that the wars worked a bush was right.

if you study ww2 in the pacific, the last battle the japanese won was when bataan fell in april 1942. after that, they lost every one. 9-11 was kinda like pearl harbor and bataan rolled into one.

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