slate.com - 12/19/2008
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Introspection has never been President Bush's strong suit. "I really do not feel comfortable in the role of analyzing myself," he told Robert Draper in 2007. "I'll try. But I don't spend a lot of time." [ more ... ]
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The Appeals Court Of History
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
Beam analyzes Bush's legacy tour: By now, the broad strokes of the Bush legacy refurbishment plan are clear. It rests on three planks:
1) Bush's presidency never deviated from its core principle of promoting freedom. 2) Mistakes were made, but only in unwavering service to this principle. 3) Bush succeeded in making the United States safer. One recalls Lionel Trilling's comment on Tacitus: It is not, as I gather, that Tacitus
lacks veracity. What he lacks is what in the Thirties ...
A Legacy of Evil
Antiwar.com Original —
... . As Christopher Beam at Slate.com has outlined it, the "broad strokes of the Bush legacy refurbishment plan are clear. It rests on three planks: (1) Bush's presidency never deviated from its core principle of promoting freedom. (2) Mistakes were made, but only in unwavering service to this principle. (3) Bush succeeded in making the United States safer." The last is perhaps the most dubious. Beam points out that nobody knows al-Qaeda's plans, and that it was eight years between the initial Twin Towers attack in 1993 and the attacks in 2001. I suspect that various measures ...
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