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Political Fictions emerged from a collection of essays initially published when the New York Review of Books sent Didion to cover the 1988 presidential campaign. Starting there and moving on to the presidencies of George Bush, Sr. and Ronald Reagan, the massacres in El Mozote, El Salvador, the 1992 elections, the role of political journalists and George W. Bush’s “compassionate conservatism,” the book is a veritable indictment of a system that Didion sees as a narrative, a kind of “fiction”—and because...
...long support for his father, former President George H.W. Bush, lasted when victory in the Gulf War gave way to economic recession and domestic woes. A similar fate awaits our current president. Just as patriotism dissipated in 1992 and allowed Bill Clinton to pull an unimaginable victory from Bush Sr., George W. Bush’s moment in the sun is destined to fade away...
...file under his arm and walked to the small, heavily guarded Current Situation Room on the second floor of the Pentagon. Powell was waiting there for him. Amid the maze of projection screens, television monitors and colored telephones, they drafted the advice on military responses Cheney would offer Bush [Sr.]: the U.S. could?and must?defend Saudi Arabia with a rapid infusion of military might...
American presidents Carter, Clinton, and Bush Sr., as well as Kissinger and others, had taken the desperate issues of the Middle East seriously. President Clinton tried especially hard in the waning days of his presidency to bring the feuding sides together. He had nearly succeeded. In retrospect it seems such a shame that he had not had a little more time. This disaster could well have been avoided...
...aren't we using the U.N.? Bush Sr. did, and the Security Council would back up the use of force. Why go around it to form our own ad-hoc coalition...