The late David Halberstam—author of The Best and the Brightest—has a posthumously published essay in Vanity Fair on Bush’s misuse of history. He charges that the Bush administration lives in
Ironically, I don’t think the Bush administration would actually dissent this much from that analysis. Just consider this op-ed in today’s Washington Post by Michael Gerson, the man responsible for Bush’s most memorable speeches but who has now left the White House, on the meaning of the 4th of July.“a world where other nations admire America or damned well ought to, and America is always right, always on the side of good, in a world of evil, and it’s just a matter of getting the rest of the world to understand this.”
Reading it you can see just how much of a mind-meld there is between Gerson and his former boss, he hits all the Bush notes.
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