They have us overreacting, underreacting, and misreacting. They have us misdirecting efforts, scaring ourselves legitimately and cynicaly, wasting money as we bankrupt ourselves on futile wars and crony profiteering, and largely hassling ourselves day in and day out with pointless exercises in bureaocracy. And so on...

Historians will have a lot of fun in the next few centuries arguing wha might have happened had only America been blessed with a competent, non-corrupt, mature and level headed administration at its time of greatest need.

In short, the Bush administration's instincts on this issue have been nearly perfectly exactly wrong on every action -- from day one.