Wednesday, September 13, 2006
Letter to the Editor at Newsweek - President Bush
In the September 16th, 2006 issue of Newsweek Jonathan Alter wrote a one page piece entitled An Alternate 9/11 History. In the piece he created a fictional history in which President Bush acted differently and the world turned out differently. I found the piece very unrealistic and very sarcastic. Here is my response:
Maybe Jonathan Alter, in his piece An Alternate 9/11 History, does not realize that hindsight is always 20/20. Second guessing the actions of our President is for historians. Jonathan Alter's piece is nothing more that hypothetical mental exercises designed to promote his political agenda. Without perspective, something we have for Lincoln and FDR, all of his "alternative decisions" are out of context and unrealistically simplified. Speaking of perspective, I would like to see Jonathan Alter write an alternate 1990's in which Clinton did not waste time and money bombing Serbia, did not half-heartedly committ to Somalia, did not miss his own opportunity to take out Osama Bin Laden and did not waste our time and attention fornicating with interns in the oval office.
Maybe Jonathan Alter, in his piece An Alternate 9/11 History, does not realize that hindsight is always 20/20. Second guessing the actions of our President is for historians. Jonathan Alter's piece is nothing more that hypothetical mental exercises designed to promote his political agenda. Without perspective, something we have for Lincoln and FDR, all of his "alternative decisions" are out of context and unrealistically simplified. Speaking of perspective, I would like to see Jonathan Alter write an alternate 1990's in which Clinton did not waste time and money bombing Serbia, did not half-heartedly committ to Somalia, did not miss his own opportunity to take out Osama Bin Laden and did not waste our time and attention fornicating with interns in the oval office.
