what could we have tooken advantage to be better off today?
2007-03-25 17:20:02 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
Following 9/11--and through to the start of the Afghan war--we had the sympathy--and the support--of the Muslim world (most of it).
We had then a chance to take a positive role in the region. We could have moved forward with trade, with investments in people and economic growth. We could have given the lie to all the terrorist claims about Western imperialism.
Instead Bush chose the path of agression-and proved--in the minds of many Muslims--that the terrorist claims about an evil, imperialistic West were true.
And the blood from Bush's crimes will still be flowing 20 years from now, no matter what we do.
2007-03-25 17:43:55 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Iraq and Afghanistan. They together are the most important missed opportunity in Americas last twenty years. Had we been successful in establishing a secure democracy in each country, then we would have placed democracy in an area riddled with religious extremism and intolerance. Had we held the countries as military territories of the United States and ran the place ourselves for years until it was stable and then turned them over to there own governments, we would have seen a dramatically different situation. This is now going to be one of the biggest disasters in Americas history. We will not be able to afford to stay there, as war is dramatically expensive and we are technically running out of funds. Now, we will see the collapse of these two nations and war in that region for decades.
2007-03-26 00:31:07 · answer #2 · answered by The Law 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
1) If Saddam was such a bad guy, he should have been eliminated in 1991-2 by GHW Bush. A relatively simple matter at the time.
2) The major missed opportunity is ignoring world wide terrorism and instead getting the US into Vietnam 2, the useless quagmire in the middle east.
2007-03-26 01:16:44 · answer #3 · answered by fredrick z 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Having the Judges decide the president and the peoples popular vote ignored. When cooler heads prevail and the public decides who will rule the country would have been better off. We missed the opportunity to find out what would have happened if votes counted meant something.
2007-03-26 00:40:46 · answer #4 · answered by Pablo 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
More nuclear power plants, oil refineries, off shore drilling,vote Ted Kennedy out, locked Jimmy Carter in on of those houses....
2007-03-26 00:27:08 · answer #5 · answered by gary l 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
When Bill Clinton had the opportunity to keep Osama Bin Laden locked up, but let him go instead.
2007-03-26 03:04:36 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Better educational opportunities.
2007-03-26 00:23:02 · answer #7 · answered by flieder77 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
NOT starting a national debt and maybe even saving social security.Hindsight is 20/20.
2007-03-26 00:26:06 · answer #8 · answered by theshadowknows 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Biggest missed opportunity was the failure to elect Gore in 2000. We will be paying the price for that failure for years to come.
2007-03-26 01:18:20 · answer #9 · answered by Sailinlove 4 · 2⤊ 2⤋
We should have closed the borders an cracked down on illegal aliens after the first WTC attack. 9-11 would never have happened.
2007-03-26 00:23:35 · answer #10 · answered by free_eagle716 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋