Image via WikipediaI am reading
Decision Points by
President Bush. He really has a good
sense of humor and seems willing to give some of the more negative details of his life along with the positive points. I'd like to have his
Crawford Ranch because it sounds like a great place to live. He would probably have the highest approval rating of any President if he had not invaded
Iraq at all and simply contained it. His
approval ratings after 9/11 and the initial invasion of
Afghanistan were high and they probably would have stayed there if not for subsequent problems. I think his foreign policy was not all bad but his
domestic policy was very weak. The standard
Republican mantra policies are not capable of dealing with the real domestic problems in the U.S. although they are not all wrong. Bush seems to have a simplistic view of domestic policies which are probably due to the way his parents raised him and his early environment.
President Bill Clinton was kind of a jerk but he seemed to have more empathy with the average person than Bush. Bush's book seems to show a lack of empathy for anyone outside of his immediate circle of friends. He seems to live in a bubble but I suppose there is a lot of that going around.
Image by Brooklyn Museum via FlickrThe government of Egypt is certainly not a representative democracy so I don't blame the citizen's for revolting against the government. Americans who are in Egypt shouldn't be there in the first place. Playing tourist is all fun and games until someone hits you over the head with a club. UW Milwaukee sent students to Egypt and now they are in danger. Couldn't someone have thought about this type of problem in advance? Non-democratic countries can dissolve at any time due to their inherent instability. This situation is magnified by new Internet social networking capabilities. Riots caused by the Internet have even happened in Wauwatosa's Mayfair Mall on a smaller scale so it is only reasonable to expect bigger riots in countries that really have something to complain about..
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