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tacocat  ·  3430 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: George W. Bush was a much better president than liberals like to admit

This article is horrible. How can you say he should be locked up in The Hague but he wasn't that bad? If you ignore all the bad you can find good policy from any politician and frame them the same way. Nixon was a paranoid weirdo but he created the EPA. Mussolini wanted to help conquer Europe but at least the trains ran on time. Say what you will about Hitler but at least he killed Hitler





possibly  ·  3430 days ago  ·  link  ·  

If you murder someone, and then save seven drowning children, your overall impact on the world can be argued to be positive, but you still deserve to be jailed for the previous murder. That's what the author is saying.

tacocat  ·  3430 days ago  ·  link  ·  

The author wants people to pay attention to what he wrote and that's about it.

This article about Nixon is a good reappraisal of an awful president. Bush doing one good thing and claiming utilitarianism as his saving grace is either dishonest or lazy.