ABSTRACT
The President George H. W. Bush veered away from the real war against terrorism in Afghanistan and went adventuring in Iraq, much to his father’s dismay, just about everybody close to Washington politics has known of the policy schism between father and son. It was politically and philosophically obvious. But people around Father Bush, a coterie of traditional internationalist conservatives who protect him like a wolf mother does her cubs, would heatedly deny any family rift—and nobody spoke publicly about it. More curious, and in many ways depressing, is the fact that this President Bush has embarked upon a policy designed to counter, or even to wipe out, his father’s entire political legacy. In the Bush Library announcement of the award to Teddy Kennedy, the spokesman praised the liberal senator as a man who “consistently and courageously fought for his principles,” and as an “inspiration to all Americans.”
