Stuart Carlson for June 20, 2014
June 18, 2014
June 23, 2014
Transcript:
The sirens Siren 1: We weren't wrong... we weren't wrong... Siren 2: Jump in, the quagmire's fine, Siren 3: You'll be greeted as liberators!
And I should have added that GHWB disagreed with the Iraq invasion in 2003, as well.Unlike his son, George HW Bush built a strong international alliance — a real alliance, where in fact we not only spent no money, we arguably made a profit (cf. a friend of mine who was minor staff in the Bush White House) — to do a specific task, which was done quickly and efficiently. He resisted nation-building, and he was right to do so. He could have gone further had he wanted to. He was FAR more wise in international affairs than his son.