By trying to remain “Presidential” and above the fray, George W. Bush allowed the Left to control the narrative for much of his presidency. Current Republican “leaders” in Congress are following his example.
Unless, and until, the GOP starts pushing back, we’re in for more of what we have now.
“the Bush approach is not really looking any better in retrospect, at least in the sense that it would be difficult to say with a straight face that Iraq, Afghanistan, or the broader Middle East look today like more tractable problems than they did in 2001, or like they might become more tractable. as being as urgent an issue as abortion.”
This moron is blaming Bush for the result of over 6 years of O’bastard’s foreign policy! Jan 2009 the area was fairly stable, and all our allies around the world didn’t hate us.
We were trusted by our friends and feared by our enemies.
Libtardian BS doesn’t work as foreign policy!
bureaucracies do not have the collective cognitive firepower to replace markets, or even to intelligently guide them. From the Soviet five-year plans to Obamacare, all central-planning exercises begin in hubris and end in chaos.
. . . But once you’ve accepted real limits on what planning can do — on what government can do — then you have at some level essentially surrendered to conservatism.And that means that somebody, somewhere, must be a racist.