Yale Law Prof. Jack Balkin wrote two excellent opinion pieces this week. One in the LA Times: A Dreadful Act II, and the other on his blog: Is the President up to the Job?
Bush’s failures as President will emerge over time– as our alliance with Europe is damaged, as our economy stagnates, as the costs of war mount. Eventually, people will see that the aggressive singlemindedness they so admired in the wake of 9-11 was ill-equipped to deal with the complexities of a post 9-11 world. They will see that he has done on the world stage exactly what he did before in his career as a businessman: He has made a very big mess, and someone else is going to have to clean that mess up.
