Friday, November 30, 2018

Good Bye George

Former President George H.W. Bush has passed, joining his wife. Many of us have lost a great deal of respect for him over his conduct during the 2016 election and aftermath. He was still an American hero.
Whether you agree or disagree with his policies, there is no doubt that he put his life on the line when our country needed men like him. He was the youngest Naval Aviator, and was shot down while doing his job. I greatly respect that about him. I won't discuss his politics or his association with  the Clinton crime cabal beyond noting them now.
He had the distinction of being VP to possibly the greatest President ever. President Trump is giving the Gipper a run for his money though. GHW Bush rode that success to the White House. He led the United States in decisively defeating Iraq after they invaded Kuwait, but made the mistake of stopping after a mere 100 hours instead of going to Baghdad and removing the stain. That decision left troops in harm's way and paved the path by which we suffered the attacks on 9-11-01.
I do not blame him for that. He chose a humanitarian option as the Iraqi army was being destroyed in horrific fashion by America and allied troops. He deserves great credit in assembling a multinational coalition which stood up to Saddam and managed to diplomatically exclude Israel while at the same time providing them a shield from muslim aggression. That mastery was needed to pull together the nations to form a united front in the middle east.
His greatest failure was at home where decepticons in both parties convinced him to sign on to new taxes which he had pledged to avoid. Those decepticons then stabbed him in the back and did not keep faith with their side of the bargain. Those same decepticons are still in congress.
George H.W. Bush will not go down as one of our greatest presidents, but he is far from being as bad as Carter or the bungling idiot Barry Soetoro.

2 comments:

Dan said...

GHW Bush was President during one of the most potentially dangerous periods in recent history. During his tenure the Berlin Wall came down and the Soviet Union
dissolved. Those events were MASSIVE upheavals in world politics, especially the
collapse of the USSR that very nearly ended up as a real internal civil war, a
civil war that could have spilled over into eastern Europe and resulted in WWIII.
Bush Sr. kept a steady hand on the state of world politics during a potentially
dangerous period and STILL managed to put together a coalition including arab countries that kicked Saddam's ass in an epic fashion. So yes....there's plenty to
bitch about regarding the Bush family's recent fall from patriotism but it in no way diminishes his very real accomplishments.

JeremyR said...

Agreed, Dan, he certainly played a huge part in preventing the destabilization of the world that resulted from the collapse of the Soviet Union from leading to WW3. His biggest accomplishment in my book is the appointment of Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court. That one act will have more results than any other thing he did in office. President Trump had given us Gorsuch and Kavanaugh, and with things happening as they are may be appointing the replacement for Ruth Badbitch Ginsberg very soon.