Bush as Denethor
Jan. 17th, 2007 10:05 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pegkerrRan across this thought in two different places: in an editorial in the Arizona Daily Star, and in West Virginia Blue's response to Glenn Greenwald's post about the collapse of George Bush's Presidency.
Bush is becoming like Lord Denethor, in several ways. The Arizona Daily Star noted the comparison between Bush's pushing "the surge" to Lord Denethor's insistance that Faramir ride out with his troops to try to re-take Osgiliath, even though it was already clearly lost. And West Virginia Blue comments on a different aspect, that like Denethor, Bush rejects all advice that would guide him away from his own disastrous path, for fear that it would mean losing power--exactly what Glenn Greenwald was commenting about.
Wish that there was a palantir to lob at him. Maybe we could get rid of him that way.
Thoughts?
Bush is becoming like Lord Denethor, in several ways. The Arizona Daily Star noted the comparison between Bush's pushing "the surge" to Lord Denethor's insistance that Faramir ride out with his troops to try to re-take Osgiliath, even though it was already clearly lost. And West Virginia Blue comments on a different aspect, that like Denethor, Bush rejects all advice that would guide him away from his own disastrous path, for fear that it would mean losing power--exactly what Glenn Greenwald was commenting about.
Wish that there was a palantir to lob at him. Maybe we could get rid of him that way.
Thoughts?
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Yes.
Date: 2007-01-17 04:42 pm (UTC)