People hate Bush for various very good reasons. I don't think we need to take this thread that way, though. It would be nice if a Democrat would step up with a real alternative plan and not simply run as the opposite of what we have. Still, the opposite of what we have now would be a big improvement, most likely. I'll take what I can get.

The issue with all this is that the Bush Administration won't come out and admit they were wrong in their focus. I don't see how it would hurt them, besides their pride, coming out and saying "we screwed up in our focus. we didn't realize how the world had changed, but now we do and we are working face the new world head on." Instead they are still focussing on "state-based" threats that may or may not exist. They're pursuing basically the same defense policy they had before 9/11.

problem: rogue transnational terrorist group Al Qaeda are a major threat to the US

their solution: eliminate the Taliban, eliminate Saddam Hussein, make threats towards North Korea.