http://vdare.com/roberts/wider_war.htmBush campaigned as a humble American who wasn’t going to boss the world around and send troops everywhere. The closeness of Bush’s election, the Democrats’ attempt to steal Florida with recounts, and the one vote margin of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Bush’s favor, made Bush vulnerable to Democrats’ charges that he was an illegitimate President.
September 11 rescued the Bush presidency. Karl Rove instantly repositioned Bush as War Leader, and the Democrats were forced off their attack.
The seeming success of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan brought together Karl Rove’s war leader strategy with the neocons’ agenda for American-Israeli hegemony over the Muslim Middle East.