Frankly, I’m glad to see George W, stepping back into the shadows.He stepped on too many toes, rubbed too many people the wrong way, stirred up animosity the world-over against the U.S. and its citizens which is why terrorists were singling out U.S. citizens for execution in Mumbai. Under Clinton, the world loved America- under Bush, the world hates us and seeks our destruction. So, it is time for him to go back into the shadows from whence he came.
So what will George W. Bush’s leagcy be? Simply this.
It will be that he foolishly believed that bringing democracy to a region that had never experienced it would remove the terrorist threat in the long term. You cannot give democracy to anyone. They have to want it for themselves and be willing to fight for it as our founding fathers did in 1776. Secondly, that you cannot defeat terrorists by brute force but that brute force you only emboldens them.
In the long term, these lessons might be a great legacy should Americans chose to learn from them and never forget them. But at the cost of almost ruining the American way of life, earning the hatred and murderous contempt of those around the world, it might have been a lesson we could have done without.
