Crusading in the Arc of Instability

Our Delusional, crusading-crackpot, POTUS .........

Funny, that only days after 9/11, President Dumbass, not only knew that his "GWOT" would take a very long time, but he believed that we knew it too.

How the hell would we have known what was coming?

How long did anyone believe it would take to route the Taliban and Al Qaeda in Afghanistan? 6 months, maybe?

At the time, most Americans had no clue that Junior was, basically, declaring war on half the world.

TomDispatch - Tomgram: Crusading in the Arc of Instability:

The Look of a War against Islam

Just five days after the September 11th attacks in 2001, in a Q and A with reporters on the South Lawn of the White House, a President with a new mission, a new cause, and a new purpose in life told the American people that, though they had to 'go back to work tomorrow,' they should now know that they were facing a 'new kind of evil.' He added, 'And we understand. And the American people are beginning to understand. This crusade, this war on terrorism is going to take a while.'

This crusade, this war on terrorism. It had such a ring to it; in the Arab world, of course, it was a ring many centuries old and deeply disturbing. And it came so naturally, so easily off the President's tongue (though it took days of backtracking by his spokesmen and prominent presidential references to 'the peaceful teachings of Islam' perverted by 'a fringe form of Islamic extremism' to begin to make up for it). But that little 'slip' of the tongue spoke volumes. It signaled that George W. Bush was already in his own heroic dream world and, only those few days after the 9/11 attacks, had both a 'crusade' on the brain and 'victory' in that crusade firmly in mind. As a result, he made this promise to the American people: (Read On^)