George W. Bush: savior of liberty?
A thought struck me the other day: did the Iraq War save American liberty? Think about what Americans were willing to do and what they were willing to sacrifice (at least, from their neighbors) in the wake of 9/11? Like a lot of libertarians, I thought for sure we would be the United States of Gulagistan by now. But the catastrophic mismanagement of the war reinvigorated the American mistrust of government, and hopefully the American mistrust of adverturism and war. Even a mildly competent president of evil designs (Nixon, Clinton) could have turned 9/11 into the Reichstag fire, but the Bush Administration is so unfathomably stupid, and its supporters so borderline retarded, that Americans simply said, “Maybe some day, but not you jackasses, and not now.”
Maybe Bush was a blessing in disguise…