Bush's "miscalculation"

That said, the realisation that has dawned upon Bush is significant for some obvious reasons. First, it should convince the warmongers -- who still have faith in injudicious application of force as a possible way of solving the issue of terrorism -- that destroying a whole country merely on the basis of suspicion and guesswork is indefensible. Second, the situation in Iraq has also removed any doubts that the US might have had about how its forces would be treated. Third, the direct military intervention has stoked up some internal conflicts that have made it virtually impossible to bring back normalcy to the country, let alone the democracy which Bush was talking about only a few months ago.

President Bush could have avoided walking into the unfamiliar terrain by not going to war against a much smaller and weaker nation, in the first place. It's not known whether he will ever realise this simple point, but what he should be able to discern without any difficulty is that his war on terrorism has been far from successful. He may have diagnosed the disease, or even rightly worked out the remedy, but he applied it on the wrong target. Honestly speaking, he miscalculated everything right from the impact of the war on terrorism to the prolonged and stubborn resistance that his troops are facing. The war has done very little to dampen the enthusiasm of terrorists. Rather, it has worked as a stimulant to the elements that are vehemently opposed to the US presence in the Middle East and its rather one-sided drubbing of a nation that was never known as a breeding ground for terrorism.

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