Open Letter to David Ignatius: What the Hell Is Wrong With You?
Dear David Ignatius:
In today’s column, you write:
Many of Bush’s international policies are sensible
because they seek to preserve a measure of American
influence in a world that doubts our leadership.
Oh jeepers creepers, this is SO wrong. Why, Mr. Ignatius, do you suppose the “world doubts our leadership”?
I’ll tell you since you don’t seem to understand: it is BECAUSE OF GEORGE BUSH. It is Bush that cost us our credibility and influence. It was Bush that chose to invade Iraq with no real allies. It is Bush that has torn up or ignored every single treaty we’ve ever
signed from Kyoto to Nuclear Nonproliferation. It is Bush that has ignored the Israel Palestine conflict, walking away from Clinton’s successes, and it is under Bush that North Korea gained nuclear arms. It is Bush that was appointed by the SCOTUS to the presidency in a one-time-only, no-precedents, largely unsigned
opinion, undermining his very legitimacy from day one. What part of that is so hard for the employees of the Post’s editorial page to grasp?
The only way to “preserve a measure of American influence” is to impeach, try, and convict Bush. It is the only way we can repudiate the past 6 years of malfeasance. No nation in history has ever let the architects of national and martial disasters to stick around to clean up the mess. There will be no faith in America’s leadership until the current criminal administration is gone.
Honestly, I don’t understand why this is such a complicated concept to get for opinion writers such as yourself, Richard Cohen, Sebastian Mallaby, Fred Hiatt, or the rest of the Peanut Gallery on the Post’s Op-Ed page. There is no paradox: the Administration has ruined our reputation in the world, and it will
not be regained until the country repudiates the Administration.
Brendan Skwire
David Ignatius commuting to the Post
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