This article pretty much summed it up for me nicely.
George W. Bush prepares to quietly mark 9/11 anniversary with little to show for his war on terror WASHINGTON—As he stood atop a wrecked fire engine, shouting encouragement through a bullhorn to exhausted World Trade Center rescue workers, the response came in a defiant cadence, louder and louder.
"U.S.A., U.S.A.," they shouted back at George W. Bush, and in the days following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States, who among us didn't feel a kinship with his grieving nation?
A thirst for retribution had international support and understanding from a sympathetic world and Americans instinctively closed ranks behind their commander-in-chief.
Yet, handed as much political capital as any president in U.S. history, Bush has done the near-impossible in only 24 months, squandering the global goodwill and watching his domestic backing erode daily.
Next Thursday, when he will quietly mark the second anniversary of the terrorist attacks that killed almost 3,000 in his country, Bush will have little in the way of anti-terrorism victories to take to Americans two years after his declaration of the "first war of the 21st century."
Instead, he will address the nation tonight as he heads back to the United Nations, cap in hand, looking for money and manpower from the organization he had derided as slipping into irrelevancy when it refused to support his campaign in Iraq.
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