June 12, 2006

Is It Bush We Are Testing to Destruction?

By Christopher Chantrill
The good thing about the reelection of President Bush in 2004, according to Matthew Parris this week in the London Times, is that it gave a chance for the neoconservative project to be tested to destruction.  He refers back to a May2004 piece in which he wrote: What the President and his advisers are trying to do will be a colossal failure. But failure takes time to show itself beyond contradiction. The theory that liberal values and a capitalist economic system can be spread across the world by force of arms, and that the United States of America is competent to undertake this task, is the first big idea of the 21st Century. It should be tested to destruction. Since that colossal failure cannot come soon enough, the international media has not been too enthusiastic about the death of Abu Musab al—Zarqawi last week.  Despite a small victory George W. Bush, his neoconservative cabal, and Middle America just don't get it, in the minds of these...(Read Full Article)