Fatal Flaws of Bush's 'Tough-Guy-ism'

George W. Bush has guided the United States into an interminable war in Iraq based on a philosophy of "tough-guy-ism." The approach holds that the only acceptable outcome to a war is American "victory" -- and that all other results, from Vietnam to Somalia, were a failure of will. Bush's backers put this vision on display during the March 23 war spending debate, but the historical narrative has some fatal flaws. March 26, 2007

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