Stiu ca va veni un moment in care presedintele Bush va ajunge sa fie apreciat. Inca nu a venit.
Unii il considera un exponent al raului, altii un dezastru, altii doar un haplea. Insa omul a fost expus unor evenimente dificile, lipsite de precedent si se poate spune ca a imprimat o directie de a face fatza acestor conditii si situatii care par a se permanentiza si cu care va trebui sa invatam sa traim.
Consider extrem de nedrept ca partidul lui a decis sa-l indeparteze de la Conventia Republicana. O mare magarie ...
Se pare ca mai trebuie sa treaca ceva timp pina cind America ii va recunoaste adevaratele merite. Fiindca le are. Acusi vor deveni vizibile.
Iata un articol in acest sens.
A Truman for our times
by Edward Luttwak
The received wisdom is that President Bush has been a foreign policy disaster, and that America is threatened by the rise of Asia. Both claims are wrong—Bush has successfully rolled back jihadism, and the US will benefit from Asian growth ...
That George W Bush's foreign policy has been a total failure is now taken for granted by so many people that one usually hears it stated as a simple truth that need not be argued at all.
It has happened before...
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Articolul zice, printre altele:
"For Bush to be recognised as a great president in the Truman mould, the Iraq war too must become half forgotten. The swift removal of the murderous Saddam Hussein was followed by years of expensive violence instead of the instant democracy that had been promised.
To confuse the imam-ridden Iraqis with Danes or Norwegians under German occupation, ready to return to democracy as soon as they were liberated, was not a forgivable error: before invading a country, a US president is supposed to know if it is in the middle east or Scandinavia.
Yet the costly Iraq war must also be recognised as a sideshow in the Bush global counteroffensive against Islamist militancy,
just as the far more costly Korean war was a sideshow to global cold war containment.
For the Bush response to 9/11 was precisely that—a global attack against the ideology of Islamic militancy.
While anti-terrorist operations have been successful here and there in a patchy way, and the fate of Afghanistan remains in doubt, the far more important ideological war has ended with a spectacular global victory for President Bush."
Un alt punct adresat in articol, este asertia generala,
de ca si cum ar fi fost deja dovedita ...,
a declinului economic al lui USA (evident, pus tot in kirka lui GWB) ...
Printre nenumarate carti care prezic decaderea, articolul face referire, numind "wishful thinking" cartea lui Fareed Zakaria "The Post-American World", aratind ca sustinatorii acestor preconceptii fac o confuzie intre
"absolute and relative change":
"The economies of China and now India have been growing rapidly ever since their governments gave up self-destructive policies, and Brazil and many smaller countries from Israel to Singapore are doing the same. This has diminished the relative wealth of the US and Europe, while at the same time greatly enriching them."
In acelasi timp, articolul atentioneaza despre adevarata amenintare care paste nu doar America, ci intreaga lume ...
"But what is true of the new industrialising states is not true of the parasitic oil-bubble countries, from Russia to Saudi Arabia to Iran to Venezuela.
Their enrichment really is our loss, as Americans and Europeans of all income levels, as well as much poorer people all over the world, pay for the gaudy luxuries of oil-rich potentates, oligarchs and their servants.
Unlike China or India, the oil-bubble countries produce neither goods nor services ... Thus their imports are unrequited transfers from oil consumers everywhere.
Moreover, these governments are mostly anti-democratic and usually nefarious in other ways as well. If China, India, Brazil and the rest of the hard-working world were like oil-bubble countries—parasitic and mostly malevolent—the future of US power would indeed be in doubt."
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