The Economist: The Frat Boy Ships Out
If one wished to credit Bush with anything, it might be this: He has finally demonstrated that grandiose plans with no basis in reality cannot succeed, even if all of the resources of the world’s greatest power are put at their service.
Now George it is over. Your Faustian deal gave you eight years of illegal and undeserved power. And did you make the most of it! You stole elections without hesitation, you lied without compunction, you started illegal wars without any consideration for international law, you shredded the Constitution without any respect for the check-and-balance system, you opened up concentration camps without any concern for the rule of law, and you maimed, tortured, and murdered without any regard for fundamental human rights.
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