WHAT THEY SAID…
September 14th, 2007He seemed almost broken to me. His voice raspy, his eyes watery, his affect exhausted, his facial expression almost bewildered. I thought I would feel angry; but I found myself verging toward pity. The case was so weak, the argument so thin, the evidence for optimism so obviously strained that one wondered whom he thought he was persuading.
And the way he framed his case was still divorced from the reality we see in front of our nose: that Iraq is not, as he still seems to believe, full of ordinary people longing for democracy and somehow stymied solely by “extremists” or al Qaeda or Iran, but a country full of groups of people who cannot trust one another, who are still living in the wake of unimaginable totalitarian trauma, who have murdered and tortured and butchered each other in pursuit of religious and ethnic pride and honor for centuries.
This is what Bush cannot recognize: there is no Iraq. There are no Iraqis Andrew Sullivan
This description sounds to me, an ex-journalist and no relation to Andrew Sullivan, like a recovering alcoholic who has fallen off the wagon.
Shalom Lawrence,
First, thank you for stopping in, for reading and, most importantly, for taking the time to write a comment. It’s all about the conversation.
There has been a persistent buzz over the last year or so as to whether or not President George Bush has, in fact, fallen off the wagon. I sincerely hope that is not so, both for the sake of his family and our nation.
Having said that, I have to agree with your observation. He performs less and less like a well man each passing day.
B’shalom,
Jeff