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Bush's legacy: Denial, arrogance led U.S. into Iraq trap
The senior President Bush understood the potential pitfalls in Iraq. In a 1998 book he co-authored, he wrote of his decision after the 1991 Gulf War not to invade Iraq after repelling it from Kuwait. "Trying to eliminate Saddam ... would have incurred incalculable human and political costs. ... We would have been forced to occupy Baghdad and, in effect, rule Iraq ... there was no viable 'exit strategy' we could see." When they elected his son George W. Bush in 2000, many voters assumed he would carry on his father's pragmatic foreign policy. Instead, he embraced the neoconservatives' risky strategy to reorder the Middle East. As the present quagmire shows, when it came to Iraq, father knew best. Bush presumably knows that by now, but it may be too late.
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