Sunday, June 22, 2008

Bush's place in history, revisited

Andrew Roberts has a column in The Telegraph (UK) reconsidering President George W. Bush's place in history. Roberts leads off with the Truman comparison before getting to specifics.

No one - least of all Bush himself - denies that mistakes were made in the early days after the (unexpectedly early) fall of Baghdad, and historians will quite rightly examine them. But once the decades have put the stirring events of those years into their proper historical context, four great facts will emerge that will place Bush in a far better light than he currently enjoys.

The overthrow and execution of a foul tyrant, Saddam Hussein; the liberation of the Afghan people from the Taliban; the smashing of the terrorist networks of al-Qa'eda in that country and elsewhere and, finally, the protection of the American people from any further atrocities on US soil since 9/11, is a legacy of which to be proud.

But didn't Barack Obama say that Bush has caused greater danger to Americans because of terrorism?

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