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Bush Has Won the Bet
Published in Almasry Alyoum on 14 - 11 - 2008

I do not understand why the world is so happy just because President Bush will leave the White House and his successor's domestic and foreign polices are totally different from his polices, which brought to the US many new enemies.
The great "Bushism" – Bush's ideology – was hinged on a group of extremist policies, the same extremism against which he has waged his wars, but in an opposite direction.
Therefore, we must recognize that Bush has created a new school of thought that has never been followed by anyone in the White House and we hope no one will follow.
The entire world paid the price of this "Bushism" throughout eight years of the most miserable period in modern history.
Anyway, this does not mean that we should ignore the great results achieved by "Bushism". We will enjoy the fruits of those results during the next four years under the leadership of US President Barack Obama.
Bush's policies have mainly hinged on what his supporters called "creative chaos", especially in Iraq, which suffers from undemocratic ruling.
Iraq had all the necessary bodies and institutions to build a new state, including the army, the police, the economy, culture and education. Now, though, it is in a state of dissolution after the army and the police were dismantled and schools and museums were destroyed. Is there more instability than this?
With regard to internal policy, the excellent example of the instability caused by Bush's policies is the US current and serious economic crisis, the effects of which have harmed the entire world global economy.
Bush took power when the US economy was booming, as the state treasury under former President Clinton had an unprecedented surplus. Is there more instability than this?
We, of course, do not like instability, but we forget that what Bush has invented is a new thing we did not use to being familiar with. We should not assess this invention based on our old measures, as instability can never be constructive in a traditional way of thinking but it has become constructive in Bush's brilliant thought.
Bush bet on this thought although it was rejected by all US politicians and economists. He relied on a group of extremists called neoconservatives, who represented backwardness and isolationism under President Clinton.
However, Bush proved the authenticity of his theory, as his instability created a state of popular disgruntlement which prompted the Americans to elect a black president for the first time in US history.
In addition, this popular hatred for Bush is another example that instability was constructive even for those people who have become able to differentiate between what is wrong and what is right.
They will never be deceived by catchy slogans and lies invented by his supporters, starting from Iraq's weapons of mass destructions to the false threat he was bent on keeping alive in US society to justify his aggressive policies.
We should thank Bush for his policies, which we failed to understand, and admit that he has won the bet.
The instability he has created everywhere has been really constructive, as it resulted in the opposite of what the world has been dreaming of for years.


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