Justifiable Fear of Tempting Fate
Monday - Nov 17, 2008 - 4:14 PMMuch has been and will be said about the 8 years of presidency of George W. Bush. I think most of the people agree that he has not been the greatest president this country has had in its history. A lot has happened during his term in the office, I am pretty sure much more than he hoped for. History has it's own special way of judging the leaders and Mr. Bush will not be spared.
One thing that's worth mentioning that's actually positive and should be contributed to this president's leadership is the fact that there hasn't been a terrorist attack on american soil since September 11, 2001. However high the price was paid for it, the fact and the matter is that we have been safe here at home, despite 2 major international conflicts that the United States is heavily involved with and numerous terrorist attacks in other countries, some being very close allies.
If this is the greatest achievement of this administration, why not take full credit for it and put it up on boards for critics and oponents to see? The explanation is in the title of this post and I wish I could take credit for phrasing it that way. It was Robert Kagan, a Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the author of The Return of History and the End of Dreams, who used it in his article in the September/October 2008 issue of Foreign Affairs.
