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Max Boot, Writing about G.W. Bush:

Much can still go wrong in the broader Middle East. Indeed, much has gone wrong already. There is no doubt that Bush has made plenty of mistakes. The mistake he has not made, however, is the most important of all: He has not lost his nerve. History shows that a mighty nation can recover from wartime miscalculations . . . as long as it possesses a leader who never acknowledges that he is beaten. In George W. Bush we have such a man. His stubbornness and certitude can annoy even his friends, but they are precisely the qualities needed in a wartime leader. They are the qualities that have made possible the edifying spectacle of Iraqis rising up to rule themselves.