As for President Bush, let's face it: He's been our most-inept wartime leader since James Madison fled the White House, leaving his wife behind to save what she could before the British troops arrived with torches. That said, Bush has displayed one single worthy characteristic (one he shares, oddly enough, with Madison): He won't surrender.
You might think Peters would prefer a Democrat, and you'd be wrong. In his view, the two candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination are worse than Bush.
As horribly as Bush performed for our first four years in Iraq, it's still possible to do worse. Both of the Democratic Party's presidential aspirants believe that the answer is to flee, handing the terrorists we've defeated a strategic victory, inviting a genocidal civil war, further destabilizing the Middle East, and sending the message to the world that Americans lack the courage and staying power of our enemies.
This article is worth your time. I do think it odd that he doesn't mention the Powell Doctrine, named for General Colin Powell, which holds that you go in with overwhelming force, nothing less. That doctrine is, in essence, what Peters believes we should have done.
