George W. Bush -- grand strategist

Hat tip to Curmudgeonly and Skeptical for this link to a wonderful Editorial column in the Washington Times. Tony Blankley writes: bq. The Boston Globe � the respected, liberal newspaper owned by the New York Times � ran an article last week that Bush critics may wish to read carefully. It is a report on a new book that argues that President Bush has developed and is ably implementing only the third American grand strategy in our history. bq. The author of this book, "Surprise, Security, and the American Experience" (Harvard Press) to be released in March, is John Lewis Gaddis, the Robert A. Lovett professor of military and naval history at Yale University. The Boston Globe describes Mr. Gaddis as "the dean of Cold War studies and one of the nation's most eminent diplomatic historians." In other words, this is not some put-up job by an obscure right-wing author. This comes from the pinnacle of the liberal Ivy League academic establishment. bq. If you hate George W. Bush, you will hate this Boston Globe story because it makes a strong case that Mr. Bush stands in a select category with presidents Franklin Delano Roosevelt and James Monroe (as guided by his secretary of state, John Q. Adams) in implementing one of only three grand strategies of American foreign policy in our two-century history. Read the whole thing - it's very well thought out. Unfortunately, the Boston Globe only has today's and yesterday's news items available online for free. Everything else is fee-based. Pfffuuii!