Geogre Bush has informed his inner circle that after he leaves office he plans to invite leaders from Middle East to his think tank, which will be part of his $500 million library, where he will give them guidance on the finer points of democratic governance:
Indeed, senior officials close to Bush [say] that Bush’s plan after he leaves the White House is to continue to promote the spread of democracy in the Middle East by inviting world leaders to his own policy institute, to be built alongside his presidential library.
Too bad no one in his inner circle has the cajones to point out that continuing the sort of promotion he’s doing now would cause more harm than good. His approach — bombing Iraq back to the Stone Age and then installing a weak-as-treacle democracy among the ruins — is the biggest foreign policy disaster in our history.
Meanwhile, here at home, not since the Federalists passed the Alien and Sedition Acts in the Adams administration has a gang in government done more to assault the U.S. Constitution. Through his actions — from wiretapping U.S. citizens to creating “signing statements” that abrogate the bills he signs into law — Bush has demonstrated an aristocrat’s disdain for the institutions of democracy.
The president’s sad bluster about staying involved in Middle East politics would be funny if it weren’t so scary. Allowing him to meddle in the Middle East could easily result in nuclear-bomb craters dotting landscape from Tel Aviv to Teheran.
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