01 October 2008

The glacial shift of institutional opinion

"Bush was a laughing stock in the gray corridors of the UN" (Spiegel; September 30, 2008)

It took nearly eight years, two wars, torture, extraordinary rendition, and an impending global recession to tarnish the office of the US presidency. Such is the massive weight of institutional opinion. This has Bush's most extraordinary accomplishment.

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