Goodbye to the Commander in Chief
"Murdering the innocent to advance an ideology is wrong every time, everywhere. Freeing people from oppression and despair is eternally right."There ain't gonna be another one like you for a long time, Mr. Bush. The president everybody took pleasure in vilifying, has delivered a farewell address.
It seems that times have changed just a wee bit since the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor and brought the Americans into WWII. I wonder if the vilification would have been so bizarre had the president of the United States on 9/11 been a Democrat. What would a Democrat have done? Would he have risen to the occasion the way FDR did?
Sometime in the not too distant future George Bush's proper legacy will be recognized. When Iraq shines as a beacon of light in the Middle East, which it is well on its way to doing, perhaps the lunatics on the left who opposed Bush with such mindless and ugly vitriol will be only a dim memory.
posted by Louise at 5:52 pm
3 Comments:
Louise---
I like Bush (well, I don't hate him), but I disagree that Iraq will be a "beacon of light" to democracy in the Middle East. I think the Iraqis have a long road ahead of them, and that the will in America just doesn't exist (nor did it ever, really) to make sure that the job is done right. If Iraq becomes an example to Middle East democracy (like Botswana in Africa), it will be mostly due to what the Iraqis themselves do in the next few years, once the American withdrawal is complete. Of course, they will owe the existence of a pseudo-stable government to America (or, if you like, the "Coalition of the Willing"), but we cannot take credit for Iraqi democracy anymore than France can take credit for American democracy.
They do indeed have a long road ahead, but I think they have a very good chance of making it. I'm not sure they "need" America to get them there, but I guess we'll just have to wait and see.
What could further from a dictatorship, than democracy?
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