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I was disappointed after reading this; from the teaser, I expected a little more, and a little better. The enormous financial and moral costs of Iraq are doubtless Bush’s greatest failure. Our position of global leadership has been seriously undermined-- and that’s not a good thing, although I’m sure many lefties would beg to differ. The fruits of financial deregulation come home to roost every day, and the healthcare debacle is a national shame. All well and good. But Katrina? Am I to assume there would have been no hurricane if Al Gore had been in the White House, or that the poor bureaucratic response would have been better? I seriously doubt it. The Minnesota bridge collapse? Our infrastructure has been crumbling for decades, and it is beyond a stretch to imagine this would have been turned around by a Democratic Administration, or that specific incidents like the bridge collapse could have been avoided. Global warming? A substantive response has been delayed, but it will take decades to stop and reverse what is already happening, and the world after a green Gore Presidency might have had a better head start, but would still be the same world we live in today. This article is more than a bit disingenuous.
