Well, it’s twenty-three years ago today since President GW Bush announced it:
An unequivocal response to what was, at the time, thought to be a great evil which must be confronted. I’m not sure the reasons for it were wrong, and I wish that the West had dug in, had not lost its nerve, and had won the peace, as well as the war.
I’m not sure that time, or the ensuing fog of war, has actually disabused us of any of the contemporary notions we labored under, although the performative machinations of social media have done their best in the intervening years to convince us otherwise.
What I am sure of, though, is that the troops who served in the “coalition of the willing” fought, died, and survived, for everything that is best in us.
May God bless them always.
Short but sweet!
Thanks.