In an article for the July/August 2007 issue of Foreign Affairs, presidential candidate and Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) “criticized the Bush administration’s handling of the war on terrorism: ‘The Bush administration responded to the unconventional attacks of 9/11 with conventional thinking of the past, largely viewing problems as state-based and principally amenable to military solutions.’ Obama continues, ‘It was this tragically misguided view that led us into a war in Iraq that never should have been authorized and never should have been waged.’ ” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.]
– Foreign Affairs, The U.S. vs. al Qaeda, Page 270