Even the War Mongers Turn Against the War and Bush

Writing by on Tuesday, 28 of November , 2006 at 3:06 pm

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You may not know Rich Lowry, he writes for the National Review, an uber-right-wing publication that used the bulk of its paper to defend the failed Republican agenda. Rich himself has been a staunch defender in the war in Iraq, but like most Republicans, he is to cowardest to go and fight (He is only 26 years old, fit, and good to go), but the times they are a changin’.

Now his new story has a lot of ducking and weaving, because face it, they have been on the wrong side of this argument for a long time, and it is hard to just admit you were wrong and move to the just and right side, but the last two paragraphs are very telling…

Bush simply has failed to run his war. Historian Eliot Cohen describes how, in contrast, the best American wartime president conducted himself: “Lincoln had not merely to select his generals, but to educate, train and guide them. To this end he believed that he had to master the details of war, from the technology to the organization and movement of armies, if only to enable himself to make informed judgments about general officers.”

Bush has taken the opposite approach and — for all his swagger and protectiveness of executive prerogatives — is becoming a disturbing study in lassitude in the executive branch.

 

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