Reply #14: I say Baker is wrong [View All]

[Johonny]

I imagine people in the future will be more focused on the events that are most important to them. The people of the future will be wondering why Bush did absolutely nothing to prevent the global warming that affects every aspect of their lives. Why he did absolutely nothing to revamp the health care infrastructure that simply fails to service a majority of Americans. Why he did absolutely nothing (even fought against it) to invest in alternative fuels placing the country at huge economic disadvantage to countries that did invent alternative fuel technology. Ditto for stem cell research. The list can go on, the underlining point is Bush did not believe in investing in America and ultimately that was his major failure. Bush is going to be seen as a person that embraced the past and spent the huge financial resources of the United States to try to hang onto the past a little longer, instead of investing in the future that would have kept America as a world leader. The future of Iraq simply will not matter to Americans any more than the future of Vietnam matters not one whit to Americans under 30 today. America was able to recover from the waste of Vietnam, but the pressures on the US are much, much greater today and it seems unlikely the US can recover what it lost out on by blowing all it's capital in Iraq. Oh no Bush will not be remembered kindly in the future because the outcome of Iraq simply never mattered to the US but nearly every other aspect of American life that will really matter in the future Bush simply ignored, stalled or fought against.