Bush and History

CNN News: Reports on how history will treat the 43rd President of the United States of America, George W. Bush. I recall reading in the third Bod Woodward book on Bush that the President wanted to be Ronald Reagan and not Bush 41. Is Bush 43 a great President or a disaster from Texas. The answer is complicated, he had to deal with 9/11, two wars, Afghanistan and Iraq and a economic 9/11. It can be argued in the following manner, there has not be another terrorist attack on the USA. In Afghanistan the War went well at the start, now its a mess, did Bush take his eye off the ball with the War in Iraq, the answer is yes and no, yes the President was more interested in Iraq but events on the ground in Afghanistan has not helped the UK in the 19th Century and the USSR in the 20th Century. In Iraq Bush allowed his Defense Secretary run the war he wanted, it was only after 2006 that Bush really took charge, the surge worked. In between 2003 and 2006 Bush made Reagan look like he was micro manager of policy. On the Economic 9/11 that is still going on but the bailout what ever you think of it has worked, the banking system is still going even if they are under government control and they system will fall in to recession if not a depression. Thus Bush 43 will look like a Great President in the years to come, just it will take some time, he is no Reagan but he is not Hoover either, so not bad on the whole when looking at the Bush Presidency.