Bill Moyers Journal Part II

I watched the second Bill Moyers Journal, Andrew J. Bacevich: Part II, for this post. Part II went on talking about the war, our problems with the (now old), president and why we wanted a new one.
The video started out saying that we weren't able to plan for the war in Iraq. He says that no one in Washington knew what they were doing.
Operation Dessert Storm was perceived to be a great success and a great victory. It started a new way of thinking. A new American way of war, we were able to have a false spectrum dominance-we felt we were dominant and we advertised it in the 90's but it was false. This set everything up for how Bush would handle the attack on 9/11. Everyone thought that our armies would be able to have a global war and be able to transform the middle east.
We think our expensive technologies/weapons will be able to dominate all. Well this doesn't seem to be true. Our enemies our getting us with homemade road bombs that only cost the price of a pizza to make. So it seems that all the money we're spending is worthless. The highjackers that killed 3,000 Americans didn't succeed because they had technology or the extra benefits we have, we just stupidly let down our guard and they got in.
We've learned from this experience that preventative war doesn't work so we should abandon Bush's "doctrine of preventative war," and throw it out. We only need to use the "Seize Force" approach of war as a last resort.
Instead of starting a Global War because of 9/11 we needed to organize a mission to do away woth the terrorists behind it.
When we look back at this war like we do with the Vietnam war we need to ask ourselves if it was worth it. How much money did we lose, what could it have went to instead. Questions that make us realize that we never need to do this again.