BUSH, THE SECOND PRESIDENT TO LOSE A WAR?
Most portray Ford as the only president to lose a war (even though Wilson committed troops in a half-hearted, failed attempt to thwart the rise of communism in Russia), and now G. W. Bush will be remembered as the second president, another Republican, to lose a war.
However, unlike Ford who sought to end the debacle in Vietnam and minimize America’s loses, Bush has been very reluctant to change course in Iraq, where attacks against Americans is at an all time high, and heed the advice of numerous studies and military officers.
I am reminded of a 1975 speech by Ford, prior to the fall of Vietnam, where he told Americans that our nation must move on and re-establish national pride. Ford said, "As I see it, the time has come to look forward to an agenda for the future, to unify, to bind up the nation's wounds and to restore its health and its optimistic self-confidence."
Bush, who soiled America’s image at home and abroad by his shameless and relentless Iraq invasion, should take to heart Ford’s words in the aftermath of the Vietnam War and begin to end his debacle in Iraq and lay the foundation for America’s moral rebuilding.
By Christian Gatsby
However, unlike Ford who sought to end the debacle in Vietnam and minimize America’s loses, Bush has been very reluctant to change course in Iraq, where attacks against Americans is at an all time high, and heed the advice of numerous studies and military officers.
I am reminded of a 1975 speech by Ford, prior to the fall of Vietnam, where he told Americans that our nation must move on and re-establish national pride. Ford said, "As I see it, the time has come to look forward to an agenda for the future, to unify, to bind up the nation's wounds and to restore its health and its optimistic self-confidence."
Bush, who soiled America’s image at home and abroad by his shameless and relentless Iraq invasion, should take to heart Ford’s words in the aftermath of the Vietnam War and begin to end his debacle in Iraq and lay the foundation for America’s moral rebuilding.
By Christian Gatsby
