The judgment of history: the early returns
The Bushies keep on insisting that history will judge their president well. Until that arrives, here’s a preliminary finding by the writer and historian William Dalrymple: Eight years of neocon foreign policies have been a spectacular disaster for American interests in the Islamic world, leading to the rise of Iran as a major regional power, ...
The Bushies keep on insisting that history will judge their president well. Until that arrives, here's a preliminary finding by the writer and historian William Dalrymple:
Eight years of neocon foreign policies have been a spectacular disaster for American interests in the Islamic world, leading to the rise of Iran as a major regional power, the advance of Hamas and Hezbollah, the wreckage of Iraq, with over two million external refugees and the ethnic cleansing of its Christian population, and now the implosion of Afghanistan and Pakistan, probably the most dangerous development of all."
The Bushies keep on insisting that history will judge their president well. Until that arrives, here’s a preliminary finding by the writer and historian William Dalrymple:
Eight years of neocon foreign policies have been a spectacular disaster for American interests in the Islamic world, leading to the rise of Iran as a major regional power, the advance of Hamas and Hezbollah, the wreckage of Iraq, with over two million external refugees and the ethnic cleansing of its Christian population, and now the implosion of Afghanistan and Pakistan, probably the most dangerous development of all.”
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