Comments by "Jim Luebke" (@jimluebke3869) on "George W. Bush and the Texan Style of American Leadership" video.

It took decades for us to turn Japan and Germany into functional democracies. Why was it a "failure of the Iraq mission" when we failed to make it happen in a few years? Sure, we failed to do it on the cheap, and people have a right to complain we shouldn't have tried it if it couldn't have been completed in the way the administration seemed to have promised. It's also fair to say that Bush's inability to sell a realistic plan to the American people led to the whole plan failing. I'm not sure that it was really that far out of our capabilities, though.
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