Obama kept Gates in place because he didn't know anyone who could do the job, plus he needed a scapegoat in case everything went to shit. He constantly uses Bush as an excuse for his own malfeasance. Every time he's caught in the act he claims it was a Bush appointee that was responsible.
I don't hold Obama accountable for starting the war, only how he conducted the war once he was in office. When it comes to Afghanistan he is partly responsible because he supported it. His mismanagement while in office is not Bush's problem.
8 years is a drop in the bucket compared to hundreds of years dealing with Islamic aggression. The Crusades were over the same kind of threat. If one studies the mind of a Muslim you'd understand that any war against radical Islamic fundamentalism is a never ending struggle. Maybe you need to read up on the subject so you can discover just how silly your statements are.
The war was unpopular because of media focus, not because of how it was being conducted.
Holy Fuckin' Shit, are you trying to rationalize THE CRUSADES?
Seriously?
For the record, the Christians were the bad guys in the Crusades. We invaded their countries, we slaughtered people without mercy.
During the first Crusade, the inhabitants of Jerusalem- Muslim, Christian and Jew - were put to the sword when the city fell.
Just before the Third Crusade, Saladin not only didn't slaughter the Christians when he retook the city, he allowed anyone who wanted to leave to do so.
In the Fourth Crusade, the Crusaders got nowhere near the Holy Land, but instead sacked Constantinople, hastening the demise of the Byzantine Empire.
And don't even get me started on Louis IX.
Maybe, you know, just maybe, if we stopped invading their lands, stopped trying to cheat them out of their oil and stopped getting into arguments with them about whose sky pixie has a bigger dick, we wouldn't have a problem with the Middle East.
What do you mean we?
America didn't exist during the crusades. And I'm sure Muslims did their share of beheadings.