I have to say I'd give him a solid F. He should never have gotten us involved in this hopeless war in Iraq. He should never have gotten us started in this undefined and endless war on terror. His energy policy is a disaster in terms of pork and in terms of not fixing any underlying problems. I don't like the Patriot Act or his current proposal to undo the Posse Comitatus Act. He hasn't made any actions to start extracting us from the failed War on Drugs. Let's see, how many unwinable wars are we involved in right now?
- Emperial / colonial war in Iraq
- War on Terrorism
- War on Drugs
When he entered the White House, we only had one hopeless war under way. Now we have three. Each costs hundreds of billions of dollars a year and none of them achieve anything.
On a personal level, he's naive. He thinks people like Putin and the Saudis are his friends. Those type of people don't have any friends (Saudi royals kill each other, in the same family). I think he really believes that Halliburton and oil companies care about the US, and that they are his friends. They are not; they don't have friends.
I also think he's dishonest. There never was any evidence of a viable WMD program in Iraq. Even the concept of a "WMD" being a category of things is a propaganda idea.
He's also fiscally irresponsible. He has borrowed so much money that our currency may never be sound.
I do like the fact that the AWB lapsed and he didn't push for it. I like the tax cuts. I hope he succeeds in reforming SS, as a first step to gutting it.
But on the whole, he gets a solid F.
