{"id":21210,"date":"2010-11-16T12:24:38","date_gmt":"2010-11-16T16:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=21210"},"modified":"2010-11-16T12:24:38","modified_gmt":"2010-11-16T16:24:38","slug":"joe-klein-empty-vessel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=21210","title":{"rendered":"Joe Klein: Empty vessel"},"content":{"rendered":"

ROS sent me a link to Joe Klein’s review of George W. Bush’s book<\/a> “Decision Points” and it shows what an empty head sits on Joe Klein’s shoulders. First you must remember that Joe Klein was the “Anonymous” who wrote “Primary Colors”, the vacant worship of Bill Clinton during his 1992 campaign. The Clinton administration was merely a bookmark in history. He accomplished nothing and the only challenges the President Clinton faced were those of his own failings. <\/p>\n

Klein writes in this supposed book review;<\/p>\n

I was surprised by how angry I didn’t become. For me, at least, weariness has replaced anger. Bush’s was an exhausting presidency that will, I suspect, be remembered more for its waste \u2014 of time, lives, money, moral standing and economic strength \u2014 than for anything else. We have survived nearly a decade now since Sept. 11, and the cataclysmic events of that day have receded, not just in memory but in importance, compared with the global economic changes and Wall Street sociopathy that together challenge America’s future pre-eminence. We have not been successfully attacked since, a matter of luck and skill. We do have Bush to thank, in part, for that \u2014 but far too much testosterone was spent kicking irrelevant butts and landing, breathless with self-regard, on carrier decks to celebrate victories that were Pyrrhic at best. We struggle to recover from the thoughtless carnage of his tenure.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The only reason it was exhausting was because people like Klein wouldn’t give a moments credit to the accomplishments of that administration. It’s as if Hussein was just another poor victim of the Bush machine. As if Desert Storm never happened, as if we didn’t deploy US troops to Kuwait border no less than three times in response to Hussein’s saber rattling during the ’90s. As if Iraq’s air defense facilities hadn’t fired on our pilots flying to enforce the UN mandate. As if Iraq had complied completely with the UN weapons inspectors. As if Iraq hadn’t attempted to assassinate a former US president. As if Bush hadn’t given Hussein countless chances to avoid war for more than a year before the invasion of Hussein’s Iraq.<\/p>\n

It’s as if the Left spent eight years blinded by their own partisan hatred to have noticed what was going on around them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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