David Brooks Offers Some Significant Perspective

David Brooks presents us with an article that offers perspective and details of historical events as they played out during the Bush presidency. I am struck by just how scary those first years were, the terrible strain the administration was forced to work under and how many have turned their backs on that reality and simply blame today's events as if they were made in a vacuum.

Op-Ed Columnist
Yes, Those Were the Days
By DAVID BROOKS
Published: March 7, 2007

Three years ago I said some pessimistic things on TV about the war in Iraq. Scooter Libby called the next day. Methodically, though with a touch of wryness in his voice, he ran down a list of the hopeful developments he thought I was ignoring. Then as we were signing off, he interrupted himself and said: “Anyway, that’s the positive spin. I can do the negative spin just as well.”

http://select.nytimes.com/2007/03/07/opinion/08brooks-sub.html