What he wants is a pipedream of US/Christian hegemony closely tracking his own personal vindication, neither of which seems possible or, for that matter, healthy for the world. It seems to me, in today's version, that his fascination with military victory has turned into a noxious obsession flouting the considered advice of so many who are positioned to know better than he on the same facts. This is quite disturbing, as Lanya points out by her reprise of this snippet. The good news is that his tenure is time-limited, its end fast-approaching. As for him creating an irretrievable policy (an irreversible mess), I don't think that is likely or even possible. The whole world is watching, and his successor can present to the world the agony of America as our good-faith offering in atonement and resolve for the future. To sum up in a nutshell, it appears to most observers and especially to those situated to know and armed with impeccable expertise that Bush is fighting against extreme prohibitive odds, to the exclusion of more (or much more) salutary proposals, to keep his "vision" of a triumphant, American-Western legacy intact, through failed means chasing a chimerical end in destruction of the very lives he professes to save.
