I think this is the first time in print I have ever seen extensive discussion of Bush’s role in creating close Indo/US relations.
The positive ramifications of that work exceed even what was copiously written here.
India may well surpass China as the number 2 global economy. India is an awesome counterweight to China and Islamic radicalism.
The diplomatic suscces of that relationship may equal the military victories.
If Pakistan does collapse and we need help cleaning it up. Guess who is ready and willing?
(good blog on what the MSM did to President Bush)
http://www.firstthings.com/theanchoress/2009/05/06/why-the-recession-is-over/
Kind of amazing, how economies get reported, from administration-to-administration, isn’t it? I remember when things were going gangbusters, (say from 2004-2006), in the Bush Rodney Dangerfield Economy; when everyone was working, unemployment was low, and even the New York Times had to bring itself to report that the Bush tax cuts were bringing in nearly unprecedented tax revenues, but that news was always reported with the caveat, “we could go into a recession any second!” No matter how good the economic news was, it was always reported with a frown, and a “but…there may be bad news on the horizon…”
Here is one particularly egregious example, and here is another, but basically, for the entire Bush presidency, the press was busy not telling you good news unless they could chase it with some bitters. And if they couldn’t well, then the economy “slipped” into a “sweet spot,” what luck!
Now, of course, the news is pretty grim. Industrialists are suggesting that this Administration is thuggish, the banks are not being permitted to payback taxpayer monies they neither need, nor want and we’re likely to see double-digit unemployment in the next batch of numbers (at least for the private sector), but the emphasis is on Bernanke’s smile, and Obama’s incredible magnificence of being.
Forbes, is a rather strange article, declares the recession is over!
Yes, that is very impressive, and I believe it.
The Prime Minister/President of India just
loves Pres. Bush, and I know he made great
strides and achieved a rich relationship
with India. Sadly, 0 will probably wreck
the whole deal.
Pres. Bush has never been heralded for all
the foreign alliances he greatly improved.
I think history and those countries will
record it.