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  • Bush's Greatness: There's a good reason he infuriates the reactionary left.

    09/06/2004 6:04:03 PM PDT · by aculeus · 50 replies · 3,758+ views
    The Weekly Standard ^ | September 13, 2004 | David Gelernter
    IT'S OBVIOUS not only that George W. Bush has already earned his Great President badge (which might even outrank the Silver Star) but that much of the opposition to Bush has a remarkable and very special quality; one might be tempted to call it "lunacy." But that's too easy. The "special quality" of anti-Bush opposition tells a more significant, stranger story than that. Bush's greatness is often misunderstood. He is great not because he showed America how to react to 9/11 but because he showed us how to deal with a still bigger event--the end of the Cold War. The...