According to U.S. News and World Report, Southern Methodist University might soon be home to the George W. Bush Presidential Library.
The article states “Once this library is built, there will be three presidential libraries in the Lone Star State;the others are the LBJ Library at the University of Texas–Austin and the George H. W. Bush Library at Texas A&M University in College Station.
The legacy of the younger Bush presidency is already written. It is the tragic aftermath of the invasion of Iraq and the failure to plan adequately for its consequences. Bush’s eagerness to leave the fighting in Afghanistan to invade Iraq has been a disaster.
Library planners will have to be miracle workers to put any kind of positive face on the occupation.”
a brief moment of confusion
Heh. When I see “SMU” my first thought is Saint Mary’s University in Halifax. Not some place in Texas!
President Bush
Bush should go down in history as one of the worst ever and this library should have a hard time making Bush look good. However, I do not trust the skills of future historians. I fear revisionists are going to look back and rank Bush higher than he deserves.
Want proof of this? Look at Lincoln. The man illegally invaded the southern states who had a right to secede from the USA. He waged a war of agression that alienated popular opinion in the North and South. He suspended the right of Habeas Corpus over vast parts of the USA in the name of supressing the “rebellion.” Lincoln destroyed international relations as the European powers were angry with the illegal Lincoln created war. Britain literally threatened war at one point!
At the time of the Lincoln assassination, he was consider the worst president ever by a large percentage (perhaps the majority) of the American population. And what have those historians done? They now rank him #1 or #2! What nonsense.
So I have no trust in future historians and Bush’s legacy. A hundred years from now when his image is rehabilitated by those who have not lived through this nightmare the George W. library may well be regarded as a great place to learn about the “great” president.
Re:President Bush
So I guess you’re not sending a check?
Prize?
I don’t know that I’d call what has to be a really humongous pile of raw fertilizer a prize. I mean, sure dairy farms find the stuff useful for spreading on the fields, but I don’t think it’ll prove attractive to academe.