George W. Bush is a lone fighter for the democracy/civilization, while the rest of the west contraries look on, anyone can find that article ? it was really good and somehow controversial.

从个人来讲, 我还是蛮喜欢他的. 我也承认运气的存在. 比如遇到大的经济危机不是谁可以左右的了的.因此我同意不能包经济危机都说成是他的问题.

从美国人来说, 能支持他连任也说明了问题. 如果伊拉克的政局不是今天这样, 今天对他的评价也会不一样.

我觉得他至少有两个大的失误:

1. 用人结构不合理. 遇到战争而且用很多鹰派对决策的影响很大. 美国能打赢撒达母这是任何人都能预料到的. 但是站后的伊拉克遇到的问题他们显然没有预料到这么糟. 这是结果. 投入这么多, 伤亡这么重,结果不好无论怎么说也不能得到民心.

2. 伊拉克牵涉了美国(政府)太大的精力, 人财物等等. 这样一来, 美国在其他国际事物中的投入减少了, 影响也小了. 其他国家和地区如中过, 俄国和欧洲就可以扩大自己的影响. 美国也就很被动了.这直接关系到国际关系的重新洗牌, 如果美国得不到便宜, 民众能不手影响么.

因此, 伊拉克是他的真正软肋,经济危机只是加重了对政府的不满.

His belief in free market, free trade system is almost religeous. He believes the government should do nothing to regulate and macro-manage the economy and let the market take care of itself. Without any effective control, many people were doing risky, irresponsible things to benefit themselves which eventually get us into this mess. And his insistence on free-trade has caused massive migration of US technologies, capital and jobs to China, India and other developing nations and eventually leave the US economy bleeding to death