“. Is that the theory you prefer?”
Not me! HW was too trusting of others, as I said “naivete.”
“Is that the theory you prefer? Not me! HW was too trusting of others, as I said “naivete.”
Forty-niner, you are the one excusing Bush’s mistakes due to his supposed “naivete” and said “HW’s biggest fault was in believing the Donks were patriots”.
So you think all of a sudden this war scenario emerges and Bush gets duped by the Euros and everybody, and they are therefore the ones responsible for the fiasco, and not Bush?
You think the leader of the free world, ex-Director of the CIA, eight years as VP under Reagan, son of a promonent U.S. Senator, WWII veteran, hard-nosed oilman whose real family business is politics can be excused because he is too “trusting of others” NAIVE??
No. Being a true believer in the Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, H.G. Wells, Progressive, United Nations theories of the New World Order only means you are a true believer in those things, same as the rest of them - and if belief in all that is naivete, then the world is run by naive people.
Of course you can make the case that all of the true believers are naive because they believe The New World Order can change man’s fundemental nature, or The New World Order can control mankind’s evil, selfish, warlike impulses, or that man can be made to be somehow different from what man has demonstrated he is throughout history, or the cycle of birth, life, and collapse and death that has happened to every civilization known to history can be averted by the policies of The New World Order.
But that does not make Bush less culpable or better than any other leader who leads his nation into disastrous misfortune by his misjudgements.