Monday, May 14, 2007

The Two Great Mistakes of the Bush Administration By Robert Klein Engler

"How will the Bush administration be judged by history, if there is a judgment that can extract itself from politics? Certainly, many feel the Bush administration has made mistakes, but all administrations do, so how are these mistakes any different from other past presidents and their failures?

It is possible that future historians will see the two great mistakes made by the Bush administration stem from the same source. The Bush administration was mistaken about the importance of culture and civilization in shaping national and international events. In short, Bush and his advisers were bad anthropologists. Bad anthropology fools us into believing that American values will be readily accepted abroad or that foreigners will readily assimilate to American values when they live in the United States."

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