Patriot Act through a compliant Congress.
He made no such effort.
Some of the reaction to that law has been excessive.
However, nobody in Washington expects them to go away on schedule; they were designated as temporary only to make their ultimate results look less scary.
The Taliban has regrouped in eastern and southern regions.
At least as reprehensible is the way that foreign nationals living in the United States have been treated.
Then came the blackest Tuesday of all.
Jobs, health care, education, and the rest may not count for much when weighed against the prospect of large-scale terrorist attack.
Nowhere has his solipsism been more damaging than in the case of Iraq.
Again, he brushed the opportunity aside, choosing to use the political capital handed to him by Osama bin Laden to push through more elements of his unmandated domestic program.
His record since then has been dictated, sometimes literally, by the industries affected.
As for the second two, if the wishes behind them do someday come true, it may not be clear that the invasion of Iraq was a help rather than a hindrance.
Troops from Britain, France, Germany, Canada, Italy, Norway, and Spain are serving alongside Americans in Afghanistan to this day. Some of the reaction to that law has been excessive. Opium production has increased fortyfold.
Then came the blackest Tuesday of all.
The Senate has confirmed two hundred and one of his judicial nominees, more than the per-term averages for Presidents Clinton, Reagan, and Bush senior.
At least as reprehensible is the way that foreign nationals living in the United States have been treated.
However, nobody in Washington expects them to go away on schedule; they were designated as temporary only to make their ultimate results look less scary. American military deaths have mounted to more than a thousand, a number that underplays the real level of suffering: among the eight thousand wounded are many who have been left seriously maimed.
In that state, George W. About others there are legitimate concerns.
His record since then has been dictated, sometimes literally, by the industries affected. Some of the reaction to that law has been excessive.