I have to admit it — I just don’t understand genetics. You inherit your genes from your parents — okay. But some traits seem to skip a generation or something.
I’m just now starting Bob Woodward’s latest book, State of Denial. Listen how smart Old Man Bush was in a February 1999 speech to about 200 Gulf War veterans:
Had we gone into Baghdad — We could have done it. You guys could have done it. You could have been there in 48 hours. And then what? Which sergeant, which private, whose life would be at stake in perhaps a fruitless hunt in an urban guerilla war to find the most-secure dictator in the world? Whose life would be on my hands as the commander-in-chief because I, unilaterally, went beyond the international law, went beyond the stated mission, and said we’re going to show our macho? We’re going into Baghdad. We’re going to be an occupying power — America in an Arab land — with no allies by our side. It would have been disastrous.
The old guy is almost psychic, huh? This is more than four years before his son’s Iraq War, which has played out just like the Old Man said.
His son, El Presidenté Bush, told Woodward years ago that he didn’t ask the Old Man for advice. “There is a higher father that I appeal to.” (Cheney, I’ll bet.)
So, anyway, if basic good sense is one of those traits that sometimes skips a generation, don’t you think we could find some way to keep the guy it skips over out of the Oval Office?
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