Victor Davis Hanson: Our Pink Panther President?

jewishworldreview.com ^ | Victor Davis Hanson

[Tolik]

"Fahrenheit 9/11," Moveon.org, Anonymous, Richard Clark and now the Newsweek story about alleged desecration of the Koran — all these sensations of the day have been used to proclaim the supposed sins of the American administration in the Middle East. Even when Americans consider that the president's foreign policy might just be working, he is still caricatured by critics and the media, here and abroad, as a clueless Inspector Clouseau who trips around and only stumbles into his good luck.

How accurate is that cartoon?

Just imagine if George Bush had predicted to us on the morning after September 11 what actually ended up happening....

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....Had the president promised or even predicted such things after September 11, most of us would have dismissed him as utterly unhinged. But that is precisely what has come to pass.

It is now time to concede it was not entirely a coincidence, and that President Bush was not a "Pink Panther"-like Inspector Clouseau who bumbled about the Middle East, overturned a few things and ended up accidentally accomplishing what legions of "experts" never could.

[wizr]

WONDERFUL retrospect!!

"... we can fight the suicide bombers and autocrats on their own turf."

Wouldn't the left love it, if we had car bombings here, instead of Iraq.

[Tolik]

They would not of course, but it would be all Bush's fault anyway.

Damn if you do, damn if you don't.

They painted themselves into a corner, when if act by the Left's rules, nothing you can do to protect yourself.

[Victoria Delsoul]

Good article, thanks.

It is now time to concede it was not entirely a coincidence, and that President Bush was not a "Pink Panther"-like Inspector Clouseau who bumbled about the Middle East, overturned a few things and ended up accidentally accomplishing what legions of "experts" never could.

Agreed.