This is referring to “Bush’s fly-in insignificant for Iraq’s future,” Commentary, Nov. 30, by William O. Beeman, who teaches anthropology and directs Middle East studies at Brown University.
I knew it would be only a matter of time before all the Bush bashers found fault in the president’s recent historic trip to visit the brave troops in Iraq on Thanksgiving Day.
First, when did he ever communicate that his visit was predicated on Iraq’s “future”?
Can’t he simply visit the troops and say “good job” without it having the least bit of geopolitical focus super-imposed on it?
The fact of the matter is that a U.S. president has never visited Iraq, let alone risk his personal safety and leave his own family behind on Thanksgiving Day.
The troops were delighted by his visit and that matters far more than Beeman’s unsolicited and slanderous commentary from safely behind his desk.
Question for Democrats: Can a Republican president ever simply go to visit the men and women in our armed forces without you labeling it a politically motivated “photo op”?
