Re: Bush in history
On this site, no one has criticised Bush harder from the right than I, but the continued insistence by the Left that Bush be regarded as among the all-time worst presidents is batty. Dave’s list of Bush accomplishments is impressive, and almost all of them are likely to be much more beneficial in the long term than in the near.
He did forget to mention the sharp advance in US-India relations, something that may be among the most important events to come out of this generation. This put the US and India on more or less parallel paths, and has caused shock waves in Beijing and Moscow. Don’t remind Andre that the screaming liberals opposed this epoch-defining event.
Up against this list, Andre offers that Carter gave us Camp David. Decide for yourselves how that ranks the men in history.
UPDATE:Dave and I also forgot to mention the agreement with N. Korea. This didn’t get the news attention it deserved, but it was an historic agreement, better than the Clinton deal (which was an utter fiasco), and proved, once again, that the Bush administration may be able to claim more diplomatic successes than any administration since Roosevelt. What do you think of them apples?
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