Slap a band-aid on it mentality.

One of the major problems with problem solving in U.S. Politics is nothing is ever solved...Instead of getting to the root of the problem and working from the bottom up to resolve the entire issue, they just look at the surface and make the easiest repair possible.

Take the terrorist situation for example, instead of delving and searching to get to the core of the network, they just went into Iraq and started blasting away, which gave at the assorted terroist time to scatter and build up in individual smaller groups, thus helping the spread or terror.

I suppose the need to act so fast was due in part too public outcry and the need to act, but I think in the long run it just mad a bad situation worse- look for a lot more terrorism in the coming years and months.