Obama ran for president by highlighting differences between the foreign policies of George W. Bush and those he intended to pursue.
Except that I annoyed fellow liberals by pointing out the similarities between Bush’s policies and those Obama began pursuing almost from day one of his presidency. In fact, commentaries as early as “Obama Angers Liberals by Governing Just Like Bush,” May 14, 2009, and as recent as “Demystifying ISIS: Case Against Obama’s Bush-lite War on Terrorism,” September 10, 2014, will attest to this.
Which is why I applaud the internationally acclaimed editors at The Economist for highlighting these similarities in the cover story for their latest issue.
And how clever of them to honor the adage of a picture being worth a thousand words by gracing this issue with a picture of Obama’s head photo-shopped on perhaps the most famous image of Bush’s presidency. You know, the one of him strutting across an aircraft carrier, dressed in crotch-hugging fighter-pilot garb, to make his ill-fated announcement about destroying al-Qaeda, while standing under a banner blaring “Mission Accomplished.”
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