Many of the things he quotes there as great things Bush did that history will respect (driving up military spending, appointing Alito and Roberts, destroying the wall between intelligence and law enforcement) are exactly the things I think are terrible, and that I hope history will think was terrible too.
History probably will moderate modern opinion in two ways: he'll get more credit for Iraq than he gets currently (even if it falls in to chaos again, it won't be his fault anymore), and his terrible response to Katrina (which the article doesn't mention, and which did a lot to hose his popularity) will be mostly forgotten/ignored. So I do think he'll be regarded better by history than he's regarded currently, but I think that writer is seriously confused if he thinks Bush'll ever be regarded warmly as a great hero. Yes, history re-evaluated Truman. But not so much Nixon, or Carter, or even Bush I. I think Bush II is more likely to wind up with them.
My general reaction to the article was to change my opinion of Truman from "I dont really know, he seems OK" to "he seems foolish from what've heard of him"
however, this comment is written a day after I read the article.
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Many of the things he quotes there as great things Bush did that history will respect (driving up military spending, appointing Alito and Roberts, destroying the wall between intelligence and law enforcement) are exactly the things I think are terrible, and that I hope history will think was terrible too.
History probably will moderate modern opinion in two ways: he'll get more credit for Iraq than he gets currently (even if it falls in to chaos again, it won't be his fault anymore), and his terrible response to Katrina (which the article doesn't mention, and which did a lot to hose his popularity) will be mostly forgotten/ignored. So I do think he'll be regarded better by history than he's regarded currently, but I think that writer is seriously confused if he thinks Bush'll ever be regarded warmly as a great hero. Yes, history re-evaluated Truman. But not so much Nixon, or Carter, or even Bush I. I think Bush II is more likely to wind up with them.
My general reaction to the article was to change my opinion of Truman from "I dont really know, he seems OK" to "he seems foolish from what've heard of him"
however, this comment is written a day after I read the article.
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