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May 4, 2004
George Will on Bush

In the Washington Post today, George Will, of all people, has a pretty scathing column on the Bush administration. It gives me hope that the facade of legitimacy on this administration is starting to wear too thin for many true conservative. They recognize that this administration is not conservative. They're.. well, they're just nuts.

This administration cannot be trusted to govern if it cannot be counted on to think and, having thought, to have second thoughts. Thinking is not the reiteration of bromides about how "all people yearn to live in freedom" (McClellan). And about how it is "cultural condescension" to doubt that some cultures have the requisite aptitudes for democracy (Bush). And about how it is a "myth" that "our attachment to freedom is a product of our culture" because "ours are not Western values; they are the universal values of the human spirit" (Tony Blair).

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Being steadfast in defense of carefully considered convictions is a virtue. Being blankly incapable of distinguishing cherished hopes from disappointing facts, or of reassessing comforting doctrines in face of contrary evidence, is a crippling political vice.

Well said, George.

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