The thing is these days things are never quite bad enough. Terrorism has not got to a stage where drastic measures have been required. 911 came close yet there was little or no follow up by the terrorists on US soil. Whether this has been by design or sheer incompetence on their part has not been established. I suspect the latter yet the level of hostility has remained at such a low level that it has become tolerable, like a small thorn in the foot. – it doesn’t require amputation. This has worked out well for Osama Bin Laden as he has been able to remain unscathed in his safe havens – not really dangerous enough to warrant the invasion of Pakistan. Clever? Or just lucky?
Nevertheless Bush has failed to destroy OBL and the people will probably choose a different party this time around. A while ago I suggested that a project be set up on the scale of the Manhattan Project to develop new weapons and techniques specifically to catch or eliminate the al Qaeda top leadership. As far as I am aware this was never done and the Bush legacy will pay the price for this defeat.
Some Republicans and Bush supporters are now looking at Obama in the hope of some change across the board. Things either need to get worse or get better and Obama offers more chance of that than McCain does. McCain will be just same old, same old.
I would suggest just get on and enjoy the ride. If things get worse then so be it, because things need to get worse for anything major to change. Against all odds things might even get better and people will be surprised. The odds are that things will change little even with Obama at the helm because Presidents are more reflections of the times they live in than anything else and nations lurch on, on an almost preset path to their destiny.
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