Trump makes a mistake in criticizing George W. Bush

NY Times:

Raising Republican Hackles, Trump Takes On George Bush’s 9/11 Record


Donald J. Trump gave conservatives another reason to criticize him by suggesting that former President George W. Bush had failed to stop the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
Why didn't he go ahead and criticize Franklin Roosevelt for a failure to stop the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.  He seems ignorant of warfare and the actions of the enemy.  What makes war different from building a sky scraper is that the sky scraper does not have independent judgment nor does it fight back.  A thinking enemy usually scripts his attacks as a surprise.  It is how you deal with the surprise that determines what kind of leader you are.

It can be argued that in both cases there was an intelligence failure, although in both cases there were snippets of information about a potential attack but none that disclosed the time and place of attack.  And, the Iraq war demonstrates some of the potential problems with primitive warfare, which Trump himself says he opposed.

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