Mr. Bush…told reporters at a press conference with Mr. [Gordon] Brown that “one of the things that I will leave behind is a multilateralism to deal with tyrants, so problems can be solved diplomatically.”
It’s statements like this that will force me to create a new “Say What?” category for this blog. The guy’s clearly starting to believe his own rancid PR. “Multilateralism?” Solving problems through diplomacy? Is he kidding? What problem has he ever solved through diplomacy?
Or maybe he’s been reading Obama’s speeches and thinks they have a nice ring to them. So he’ll steal some of Barack’s thunder. But whatever Bush is smoking, he ought to give it up and face facts.
It’s also interesting to note that Bush has essentially conceded he will not be viewed favorably by historians. But he dismisses this by noting “there’s no such thing as objective short-term history.” In other words, all those judging him will be hopelessly biased. Only those who judge him say, in about 1,000 years will possibly have enough distance to truly appreciate the gifts he bore western civilization.
Bush is starting to remind me of Orson Welles’ doddering Citizen Kane looking back in his dotage with deluded fondness over his wretched past.
No surprises here. Of course, I hope Obama is elected as are more Democratic Congressmen and women who won’t be timid with investigations. For the short-term – I”m more intersted how the courts judge him than historians…
Bush never ceases to amaze me
Such statements you can expect from a self anointed czar of former soviet republic Fara-way-istan or an African Jungle potentate, but an American president selected by US supreme court ? that’s hard to understand.-but it shows how deeply flawed your democratic system is
His legacy is an isolated America. Not only has he been unable to cooperate, He has been unwilling. Clearly demonstrated as he sidestepped the Senate and installed embattled nominee John Bolton as ambassador to the United Nations
Creative people, like composers, painters and writers are best judged in posterity. Politicians by their contemporates. Maybe Woodrow Wilson is an exception..his plan at Versailles might have prevented Hitler’s raise to power.
What can possibly happen in the future that vindicates Bush’ lies, illegal war, torture,moral and financial bankruptcy. What can absolve him from his crimes against humanity ?
Somehow, I don’t think the millenia will improve GWB’s reputation. It hasn’t worked for Nero or Elagabalus.
Zhu Bajie