"Shock and awe" has led to slaughter and horror.
The policies of the Bush/Wolfowitz crowd have led, not to democracy and development, but to chaos and collapse -- and to the formation of a brutal and medieval "caliphate" which is drawing adherents from around the world. Our global reputation as a just and democratic state -- what Gary Hart calls the "fourth power" of our principled beliefs -- lies in tatters, after more than a decade of torture, spying, and unjustified military intervention.
This war has been the greatest failure in American history. The American people will be paying the price for it for generations to come, in more ways than one. But Jeb Bush has reminded us that there is no price to be paid for failure, or for ethical lapses, among the elites who govern us.
In the gendered language of male power, there is a saying: Success has a thousand fathers, but failure is an orphan. Wolfowitz's failed war has created more than its share of orphans.
How many more orphans must be left behind before Jeb Bush finally becomes "his own man"?
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