Blog Post

On October 7th, 2001, the first official invasion of Afghanistan begins with a air assault and multiple covert operations on the ground. This marks the first national return-fire to the terrorist attacks on the US and middle east, and what is even today still an ongoing conflict.

One has to think, that what started on this day has affected everything from oil prices to the families of deceased soldiers not just on the American side but also the Middle East's. Years later, we have killed both Osama and Hussein, and things are relatively better, but it isn't over. It's decisions like these that pilot a nation to decisions we will feel for years.

Sure, Bush was criticized about his war decisions, etc. but I believe that if he had the speech giving ability of Obama he could have gotten a significantly higher amount of praise for his strong willed movement into the "War on Terror".