Free Republic

The challenger has made much of his assertion that Bush has squandered world sympathy in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks in 2001, writes Tony Parkinson. President George Bush speaks to the American people in a folksy idiom. Self-evidently, this approach does not travel well. He also leads the superpower when it is engaged in a gruelling and harrowing campaign to confront the phenomenon of jihadist terrorism, one element of which involved a costly and contentious war in Iraq. Bush calls this the "hard work of history" - but, clearly, this agenda has tested the limits of international goodwill. According...