As Michael Tomasky
notes in this piece, the public has grown not only war-weary, but very skeptical of U.S. intelligence as a result of the cherry-picking, fabricating, and deceptive "intelligence" that led us into a war with Iraq over their non-existent WMDs (not to mention their non-involvement in 9-11). That's Dumbya's gift to national security, thank you very much. Even though the players have changed, the public is still wary about entanglements in the Middle East particularly. Had Dumbya's team been honest in their targeting, and focused on al Qaeda, we might be in a more advantageous position.
Another legacy, added to the economic one, that Dumbya and the Rethugs left behind.
(photo: AP. The Scream Team posing, Condi showing some leg to
her husband Dumbya, and The Dick sitting within reach of Dumbya's strings)
