PRESIDENT BUSH ON WOUNDED SOLDIERS AND MARINES.
What register's in Bush's mind when he visits wounded soldiers at Veteran's Hospitals and the like.
I wonder if his holy calling clouds his judgement.
I think religion has a place in public life in terms of maintaining perspective based on a conscience, but Bush seems to have achieved the opposite result.
If you do not understand the results of your decision then you have no conscience or maybe in Bush's case he just does not care anymore.
Could he be faking his interest in these wounded soldiers?
His 4 main mentors are Reagan, Jesus, Lincoln, and Truman.
Truman pursued a containment policy against communism rather than confront it directly. He laid out a partial plan that would end in the peaceful evolution of Russia.
Reagan cut his losses in Lebanon and avoided major wars all during his term. He was not the best President, but he did not pursue military confrontation with the Soviet Union later in his administration.
Lincoln sought a war of the sections as Stephen Douglas wrote and spoke on.
Lincoln, however, sought a short war rather than a long drawn out war.
Lincoln was an amateur when it came to his appointments of generals. A bad judge of personnel on this point.
Jesus did not seek war, but peace. God seek's peace, but he would frown upon the attempt to remake the Middle East as Bush is trying to do.
Bush, apparently, is so cultured in his ideology that he does not recognize the cost to these soldiers, their families, friends, and the American People.
A President is obsessed with history most of the time.
Like his predecessors: Johnson, Nixon, Reagan, and Clinton Bush wants to leave office with accolades so that historians, political scientists, and journalists will write good books on them and speak highly of them.
Yes, an obsession with history that will cost this nation several more years of frustration and agony.
Bush chose history over the general public.