Bush as Churchill? 

Bush as Churchill?

Possibly getting warmer.

Churchill on Neville Chamberlain, written after WWII:

...we now had a narrow, sharp-edged efficiency within the limits of the policy in which he believed. Both as Chancellor of the Exchequer and as Prime Minister he kept the tightest and most rigid control upon military expenditure. He was throughout this period the masterful opponent of all emergency measures....His all-pervading hope was to go down to history as the great Peacemaker, and for this he was prepared to strive continually in the face of facts, and face great risks for himself and his country. Unhappily he ran into tides the force of which he could not measure, and met hurricanes from which he did not flinch, but with which he could not cope.


Underneath the damning with faint praise, this may not be too far from Bush's view of Kerry. Churchill was infatuated with himself, and liked violence a little too much. Are those the similarities the Bush defenders have in mind? But of course the Churchill passage is thought out, and expressed, masterfully--and there is real generosity here.

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Comment One must learn from history, or they are doomed to repeat it. Something many politicians fail to understand. Perhaps Bush understands more than people realize.

Wed Sep 1, 2004 7:42 pm MST by Anonymous

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