DETROIT — The last semblance of broad public support for President George W. Bush is the diminishing number of Americans who continue to believe his administration does a good job with national security. “Bush makes me feel safer,” they foolishly proclaim.
Those who advance just slightly beyond their visceral emotions and think at all are arriving at an inescapable conclusion: George W. Bush’s policies fail to protect us and his approach to national security is a disaster.
The testimony and evidence for that conclusion comes, not from the Democrats, the left, pacifists or anti-imperialists, but rather from seasoned military people and national security experts who served in the administrations of Bush the Elder and his impetuous, reckless son, Bush the Lesser.
We already know from former White House terrorism czar Richard Clarke and former treasury secretary and National Security Council member Paul O’Neill how Bush wanted to use the Sept. 11 attacks as the pretext to invade Iraq. We know from them that Bush was fixated on Saddam Hussein and would willfully meld him into the terrorists who struck the United States, although...