George W Bush
Partisans: The conservative revolutionaries who remade American politics in the 1990s by Nicole Hemmer
by Dominic Kelly •
The President of Good & Evil: The ethics of George W. Bush by Peter Singer
by Raimond Gaita •
The looter held a sign in one hand as he pushed a trolley overflowing with stolen goods in the other. His sign read, ‘Thank you, Mr Bush’. It was not, I suppose, the kind of gratitude George W. Bush had expected. The next day’s looting was not likely to raise a smile: private homes, great museums, and hospitals were ransacked. Vigilantes exercised rough and sometimes cruel justice. There will be worse to come when mobs catch Saddam Hussein’s brutal functionaries. Again, we will be reminded that oppression does not even make people noble, let alone good.
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