Hi David,

You wrote an interesting article today. I appreciated your insights on Bush's personality. As someone who grew up with an alcoholic parent, I recognize Bush's behavior all too well. He wants to stand back making grandiose pronouncements and leave the dirty work to others. That way, when things don't work out, he can claim his idea was valid, but other people let him down. Of course he's always being let down by others... but isn't it wonderful how he accepts other people's lack of perfection?

Of course Bush was correct when he said that a way to solve the problem in the Mideast is to turn it from a region of tyrants and poverty into a region of liberal democracy and prosperity. That conclusion would be incredibly obvious to any reasonably aware person. He was wrong to think he could make it happen. The Arabs have to do that for themselves. Or does he think the Arabs haven't bothered to try it on their own? Perhaps they were just sitting there, inert and clueless, waiting for someone to come along and tell them how to fix their culture? Please....

It doesn't take genius to stand there telling others how they should be fixing the world, just arrogance and ignorance in equal doses. Megalomania is a scary thing when you get to experience it first hand.

John T. Korab