Interesting piece from the Dartmouth Review

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We are witnessing the comprehensive failure of an American president. Recently William Buckley said that Bush has been “engulfed” by Iraq and that if he were a European prime minister he would resign. Buckley has also said that Vietnam destroyed the Cold War liberals and led to Republican control of politics for a generation. And that Iraq would do the same for the GOP. What, then, are the roots of Bush’s failure?

The answer is easy. Bush and his advisors have been driven by ideas and theories disconnected from actuality. And actuality always wins.

Bush has been a catastrophe. He ignored actuality in Iraq, in the women’s revolution, in science and stem cells, in fiscal policy, in his market fundamentalism, in his religious fundamentalism. Iraq is a trillion dollar strategic catastrophe: tens of thousands dead, two million Iraqis in exile. Somewhere President James Buchanan is throwing a champagne party. Buchanan is no longer the worst. Happy day for him. Eighteen months to go.


I think this guy about covers it.

http://dartreview.com/archives/2007/05/14/why_bush_failed.php

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1. Link?

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2. Oops, I have added the link to the original post