"Many officials, however, fear its resilience."

The consensus is that America is less safe, weaker, with less prestige, less regard, and less affection in the world. Contrasting, al-Qaeda is stronger, recruiting successfully, the Taliban stronger, Afghanistan growing more opium than ever, Turkey and the Kurds and Iran increasing tension, Iraq a wreck, Syria and Jordan overwhelmed with refugees and

Bush, who has lost wars in Iraq and Afghanistan wants to go to war against Iran with the same military he has abused and weakened.

Insanity. That's his legacy.

And it's for the next person to fix, to start America's, Iraq's, Afghanistan's and the rest of the Middle East's healing. It will probably be a female Democrat.

Arf