文档介绍：CONTENTS
COVER PAGE
TITLE PAGE
PREFACE
CHAPTER ONE Bush Agonistes
CHAPTER TWO The Manichean Warrior
CHAPTER THREE The Manichean Road to Baghdad
CHAPTER FOUR Iran: The Next War?
CHAPTER FIVE The Manichean Paradox: Moral
Certitude Tramples Moral Constraints
CHAPTER SIX The Tragic Legacy of e W. Bush
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
ALSO BY GLENN GREENWALD
COPYRIGHT
PREFACE
Let me just first tell you that I’ve never been more convinced
that the decisions I made are the right decisions.
—E W. BUSH, September 12, 2006,
speaking to a group of right-wing pundits in the White
House
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he
was yesterday.
—ABRAHAM LINCOLN
The attacks of September 11 presented e Bush with
a rare opportunity of historic proportions. Virtually overnight,
he led a suddenly unified and purposeful citizenry that was
prepared—even eager—to set aside the petty though
intense partisan wars which had plagued the country for the
prior two decades, and once again focus on the nation’s
core values and shared political principles, the ones which
transcend ideological differences and which make America
so worth defending.
The president’s principled and eloquent post-9/11
rhetoric solidified this unity and ensured that the vast bulk of
Americans—Republicans, Democrats, and Independents
—would loyally support both him and his policies over the
course of the next two years. There are very few periods in
American presidential history, if there are any, that
compare to the widespread popularity and unchallenged
power e Bush amassed—not only in the immediate
aftermath of the terrorist attacks but also up to, including,
and for some time following the March 2003 invasion of
Iraq. Few presidents have soared as high manded
such unthwarted power as did the post-9/11 e W.
Bush.
And yet, as the end of his presidency approached,
historians and political figures from across the ideological
spectrum—including many of his previously mo