Saturday, August 07, 2004
So so slow?
Or perhaps we've just gotten more impatient.
But the contention that because he didn't spring from his seat like Ahnuld, and start barking orders he was therefore "paralyzed" is, well, kind of silly. It took nearly four months for the United States to respond *at all* to the attack on Pearl Harbor (Doolittle's Raiders in April 1942). And that was basically done simply to remind the Japanese we hadn't forgotten. It was a publicity strike more than a serious military blow. Less than *one month* after 9/11, Bush had organized a crushing military campaign against the Taliban that resulted in the smashing of their regime by early December 2001 (and, in my opinion, the death of bin Laden).
But the contention that because he didn't spring from his seat like Ahnuld, and start barking orders he was therefore "paralyzed" is, well, kind of silly. It took nearly four months for the United States to respond *at all* to the attack on Pearl Harbor (Doolittle's Raiders in April 1942). And that was basically done simply to remind the Japanese we hadn't forgotten. It was a publicity strike more than a serious military blow. Less than *one month* after 9/11, Bush had organized a crushing military campaign against the Taliban that resulted in the smashing of their regime by early December 2001 (and, in my opinion, the death of bin Laden).
