Rebellion over Iraq: Son against father
Independent Institute
by Ivan Eland
01/22/07
There have been pop psychology explanations that attribute President Bush 43’s aggressive foreign policy decisions to a rivalry with President Bush 41 — for example, ascribing junior’s invasion of Iraq as a reaction to his father’s writings about the pitfalls of doing so. Advocates of such explanations must be trumpeting the president’s recent repudiation of the chief recommendations of the Iraq Study Group — a panel stocked with his father’s former associates — to begin withdrawing U.S. forces from Iraq and to engage in direct negotiations with Iran. If junior is either consciously or unconsciously making decisions that implicitly stick it to his old man, the American, Iraqi, and Iranian peoples unfortunately are primarily the ones who will be stuck with the horrific results...
https://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1897
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ivan+Eland
by Ivan Eland
01/22/07
There have been pop psychology explanations that attribute President Bush 43’s aggressive foreign policy decisions to a rivalry with President Bush 41 — for example, ascribing junior’s invasion of Iraq as a reaction to his father’s writings about the pitfalls of doing so. Advocates of such explanations must be trumpeting the president’s recent repudiation of the chief recommendations of the Iraq Study Group — a panel stocked with his father’s former associates — to begin withdrawing U.S. forces from Iraq and to engage in direct negotiations with Iran. If junior is either consciously or unconsciously making decisions that implicitly stick it to his old man, the American, Iraqi, and Iranian peoples unfortunately are primarily the ones who will be stuck with the horrific results...
https://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1897
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ivan+Eland
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