By Glenn Greenwald
What is going to be the legacy of President George Walker Bush? during this interesting, well timed booklet, Glenn Greenwald examines the Bush presidency and its long term impression at the kingdom. What all started on shaky, doubtful flooring and used to be reinforced and propelled through tragedy, has finally faltered and failed at the again of the dichotomous worldview—good as opposed to evil—that as soon as served it so good. In a sad Legacy, Greenwald charts the increase and steep fall of the present management, dissecting the rhetoric and revealing the defective beliefs upon which George W. Bush equipped his policies.
On September 12, 2001, President Bush addressed the state and offered a truly transparent view of what was once to come—a view that may be acknowledged to outline his whole presidency: “This might be a enormous fight of fine as opposed to evil.” in keeping with his personal Christian religion and subsidized by means of biblical allusions, Bush’s worldview used to be easy and binary—and every body was once compelled to settle on an aspect. using excessive on public help, Bush sailed throughout the early “War on Terror,” simply defining our enemies and obviously environment an time table for defeating them.
But as soon as the struggle turned murkier—its goal uncertain, its fighters now not obvious in black-and-white—support for Bush and his rules dropped precipitously. Glenn Greenwald brilliantly finds the explanations in the back of the cave in of Bush’s strength and approval, and argues that his maximum weak point is identical rhetoric that after propelled him to date ahead. dealing with concerns that may no longer be become basic stable as opposed to evil choices—the catastrophe of typhoon Katrina, his plans for Social safeguard “reform,” and, such a lot ironic, the failed Dubai ports deal—Bush faltered and fell. Now, Greenwald argues, Bush is trapped via his personal offerings, not able to damage out of the mould that after served him so good, and detached to the consequences.
A Tragic Legacy is the 1st precise personality examine of 1 of the main debatable males ever to carry the place of work of president. Enlightening, robust, and eye-opening, this can be an in-depth examine the guy whose incapacity and cowboy common sense have left the USA in danger.
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The prospect of a permanent French base on this vulnerable alley of water threatened not only the treasure fleet but Spain’s dominance in Europe. Yet for the staunchly Catholic Spanish crown, driving the French heretics from La Florida was not just a geopolitical necessity but a sacred cause—one that would be undertaken, like those earlier raids by the cutthroat dissenter Jacques de Sores, amid a mood of homicidal reli gious fervor. the clash nearly came at once. If the winds had been friendly, Man rique de Rojas might have made it to the mouth of the Saint Johns just as the French were arriving.
So devastated was Cuba’s first capital that it never fully recov ered and was soon overshadowed in importance by Havana. ” But at least Le Clerc, who may have been Catholic himself, spared the local church. With the arrival of Jacques de Sores in Cuba the following year, Europe’s religious carnage began to spread to the New World. Sores saw himself as a Protestant avenger, a scourge against the false church. So deep was his hatred of Catholics that decades later, when he captured a Portuguese ship en route to Brazil with forty Jesuit mission aries on board, he ordered them thrown into the sea dead or alive, along with their holy images, books, and relics.
It is true that the historian and naturalist Gonzálo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés left an extensive, if crude, pictorial record of his travels in the New World, but even he conceded that he lacked artistic talent and training. And while Spanish authorities regularly asked explorers to bring back information on native 12 PA I N T E R I N A S AVA G E L A N D customs, “no request seems to have been made for drawings,” observed the historians Paul Hulton and David Beers Quinn. The first important European painter in Mexico, Simón Pereyns, did not arrive in the New World until two years after Le Moyne, and, once there, he painted the same things that he would have painted in Spain: religious scenes and portraits of his countrymen.