What Bush did right

There is a litany of criticisms out there that have been launched at the 43rd President of the United States over the years, and the things that went wrong during his administration—some of them founded, but many more of them not. Frankly, the accusations against former President George W. Bush are too numerous and lengthy to go into here. I would have to write a novel to address each and every one of them. Besides, a lot of the attacks on Bush are so baseless anyway that they do not deserve the extra attention.
The Bush haters are so hell-bent on portraying the man in a negative light for those things that he did wrong, or that went wrong, that they purposely ignore what he did right and what went right during his eight years in office.
So, without further delay, I will spell out in clear, concise English what President George W. Bush got right.
After Sept. 11, 2001 there has not been another international terrorist attack on American soil. There was not another domestic terrorism act on American soil since the D.C. sniper shootings of 2002. Period. Bottom line. End of story.
Commander-in-Chief Bush, with the support of the United States military and counterterrorism intelligence, managed to keep al-Qaeda and its allies at bay in the Middle East by taking the war to them, instead of waiting for our enemies to come at us again. In spite of pitfalls experienced during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the one stroke of brilliance of the offensive strategy is that it has kept al-Qaeda from wreaking further havoc on American soil. The United States selected ground of its choosing—Iraq—from which to conduct the “War On Terror” and engage our terrorist enemies. Instead of chasing terrorists all around the globe in an effort to engage them on ground of their choosing, the U.S. Armed Forces enticed them to crawl out of their caves and come to it.
While there have been terrorist attacks in other countries since Sept. 11, 2001 the United States of America has not been touched since. The credit for this is due in large part to the strategy of the Bush Administration. Under former President George W. Bush’s watch, the American republic has been kept safe to continue practicing its freedom and spreading its liberty to the tired, huddled and weary masses of the world.
If you are capable of acknowledging anything positive from the past eight years under George W. Bush, then at least acknowledge that.