In retrospect, it is sort of adorable the way I thought George W Bush was the dumbest, most incompetent and easily manipulated president ever.
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George Bush was a simple child elevated to power. He believed in dangerous fantasies and was easily manipulated, but I think he broadly needed to believe he was doing the right thing, so that made implementing the most bald faced evils more complicated. Torture is justified because Jack Bauer needs to save millions of lives from bad men who wanted to kill daddy.
Donald Trump is a mean child elevated to power. He needs no convincing for why the state should do evil. He relishes it. Torture is justified because you're powerful and you don't like them.
It's bad when George Bush seems like a better president than Trump
Right? Remember when "Bushisms" were a thing, they feel almost sensible now, just silly little mistakes in speech. Or how the media discussed that his calls for a fight of "good vs evil" were crossing a line, and people were still concerned abotu that. Or how there was a real discourse that warned, that debating if torture is "sometimes justified" would lead to a descend into barbarism...
And then comes the moment where you think "will we think the same about Trump in a couple years?"
Unlike bush he’s a convict
Like Hitler he’s built concentration camps
Gitmo wasn’t exactly a shinning moment for the Bush administration.
Or the Obama administration.
Wow til W made gitmo, I was too young to remember so I assumed it'd been a thing for decades
Not to worry, everyone’s memory can be refreshed since we’re turning it into a camp
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guantanamo_Migrant_Operations_Center
Well before the camp was there, it was just the military base of the same name.
Is Trump lying or his appointed head of intelligence incompetent?
Both is also an option, but neither isn’t.
It’s another example him being in a no-win position. No answer to his situation is acceptable.
It seems to happen pretty frequently. He is either engaging in completely reprehensible behavior, or he is so hopelessly clueless to everything around him that he should never be considered for serious responsibility. There is no positive light that can be shed.
This would be a career ending scandal 10 years ago
Eh, they could still claim that the information is something the British government has lerned.
And like with Bush, will the "opposition" and media all just fall in line?
Some poor sod of a corporal who just wants to finish his contract so he can enroll into college without crippling debt just exhaled a Category 5 sigh once he realized he now has to paint thousands of vehicles tan again.
Gulf of Tonkin incident should have been a lesson on what not to do.
And yet ...
What, you mean the tutorial mission?
Only fitting for the guy - everything he does is based on a lie.
Didn't Big Bush start a war the same as Little Bush eventually start; and all among that old and tired "wars create short-term jobs and boost the economy" rule that was true in the 1900s?
Gulf War I was responding to Iraq invading Kuwait, so a much less manufactured conflict.