Bush bashing: time for Tom to let it go?
A thoughtful reader of this blog advises me to drop the Bush bashing. He thinks it is unseemly and looks like a sop to my leftist readers (do you hear me over there in the amen corner?) His heart is in the right place, and so I promised to think on his note. I have. ...
A thoughtful reader of this blog advises me to drop the Bush bashing. He thinks it is unseemly and looks like a sop to my leftist readers (do you hear me over there in the amen corner?)
His heart is in the right place, and so I promised to think on his note. I have. But what I keep coming back to is this: I think President Bush’s decisions were so disastrous that we will be paying for them for years, particularly with Iraq. So I am inclined to keep pointing out the costs of what may have been the worst set of foreign policy decisions ever made. But I’d like to hear from readers: Is it time to put a moratorium on exploring why Bush may have been the worst president? Best post on this wins a free signed copy of any one of my books. If you’ve already got the complete set, then you can have my extra copy of Alistair Horne’s The Price of Glory.
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