▲「Economist.com」Nov 11th 2010. （冒頭部分）
〈http://www.economist.com/node/17463207〉
LIKE his great friend Tony Blair, who was elected three times, George Bush, who was elected twice, left office with his reputation in tatters. Did he not invade Iraq on trumped-up charges, bend America’s laws and values to permit the torture of prisoners, and leave his successor the worst economic crisis since the 1930s? “Decision Points”, the former president’s memoirs, published this week, will not change the minds of the detractors who think so. The book brims not only with the self-exculpation you might expect but also with a good deal of self-congratulation which, in the circumstances, you might not. Even so, the former president’s emergence from the silence he imposed on himself after the election of Barack Obama does invite a reassessment of a much-maligned presidency.
ブッシュ前米大統領の回顧録 Decision Points の書評。のっけからくそみそ。
〈http://www.economist.com/node/17463207〉
LIKE his great friend Tony Blair, who was elected three times, George Bush, who was elected twice, left office with his reputation in tatters. Did he not invade Iraq on trumped-up charges, bend America’s laws and values to permit the torture of prisoners, and leave his successor the worst economic crisis since the 1930s? “Decision Points”, the former president’s memoirs, published this week, will not change the minds of the detractors who think so. The book brims not only with the self-exculpation you might expect but also with a good deal of self-congratulation which, in the circumstances, you might not. Even so, the former president’s emergence from the silence he imposed on himself after the election of Barack Obama does invite a reassessment of a much-maligned presidency.
ブッシュ前米大統領の回顧録 Decision Points の書評。のっけからくそみそ。