Too bad to be true
Octavius Pinkard
Jordan Times, Friday, May 28, 2004

History was kind by giving us John F. Kennedy and not George W. Bush to
lead America through the Cuban Missile Crisis. Thankfully, it was
Richard Nixon and not George W. Bush who went to Peking to open
relations between the United States and China. The world was fortunate
to have Ronald Reagan and not George W. Bush guide the US through and
over the cold war. And, fortunately, there was George H.W. Bush, not his
son, who led the coalition during the first Gulf War. This is not to say
that each of these men was perfect, but that they were much more capable
and effective leaders than the current occupant of the White House. The
current leadership in Washington has demonstrated a remarkable and
sustained ability to make bad situations worse. Iraq is a most tragic
case in point. The country has literally been torn apart, and now that
Al Qaeda network has made its way in, it will be increasingly more
difficult to stabilise the country and make the peace. One of the
lessons of Iraq should be that poor planning leads to poor results. His
foreign policies speak volumes to the fact that Bush knows little about
the world and even less about the Middle East.

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