The Bush legacy as seen through a neo-con prism
By Brad on Jan 23, 2009 in GOP/Republican Party, Neo-cons, Politics, Right Wing, Things That Make Me Sad | comments(1)
Responding to “a twisted op-ed” by the former president’s chief speechwriter Marc Thiessen in yesterday’s Washington Post, Steve Brenen sums up the neo-con view of George W. Bush’s legacy…
Most of the arguments are tiresome and familiar: except for the catastrophic events of 9/11, and the anthrax attacks, and terrorist attacks against U.S. allies, and the terrorist attacks against U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, Bush’s record on counter-terrorism was top notch. As Thiessen sees it, Bush handed Obama a terrific national-security dynamic, which shouldn’t be tinkered with at all.
It reads like a laundry list of discredited talking points: torture works, warrantless-wiretaps are necessary, we can’t withdraw from Iraq or al Qaeda wins, etc. It’s the kind of inane demagoguery that a sensible person would be embarrassed to be associated with.
