1,000 Days Left of Bush

Historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. writes in the Washington Post about Bush's Thousand Days. There are 1,000 days left in Bush's second (and constitutionally last) term as president.

Most of the article is a condemnation of Bush's doctrine of preventative war. He cites that if JFK listened to his Joint Chiefs' call for preventative strike against the Soviet Union in Cuba, it probably would have started a nuclear war since we now know "Cuba had tactical nuclear weapons and orders to use them to repel a U.S. invasion."

"There is no more dangerous thing for a democracy than a foreign policy based on presidential preventive war."