From the Forum “Undoing Bush”

By far the most significant intelligence error of the Bush Administration has been the decision, contrary to established American policy and common sense, to treat terrorism not as a crime, to be solved by intelligence and law enforcement agencies, but as an existential military threat, to be confronted with tanks and Marines. This was not an abstract choice. The administration has worked for years to embed Bush’s worldview in the highest levels of the American intelligence system.

Bush made his philosophy explicit in 2004. “I know that some people question if America is…