Our country’s national embarrassment has ended. But with the passing of the Bush-Cheney administration, America faces numerous national and international challenges left in the wake of the most disastrous and haphazard presidency in our history.
On the national front the new president, Barack Obama, must attempt to rebuild our economy, upgrade our crumbling infrastructure and rebuild confidence in government agencies that are now burdened with unqualified appointees who got their positions via Bush cronyism. The morale in the U.S. Justice Department was shattered when then-Attorney General Alberto Gonzales allowed the White House to use that agency as a tool for deceitful acts. Agents of the CIA had to grasp the fact that their undercover status might also be compromised as when Bush administration officials exposed one of their fellow agents for political purposes.
On the international front, we must rebuild the trust that our allies had in the United States before George W. Bush acted unilaterally in invading Iraq, thereby creating instability that may go on throughout the Middle East for a generation.
Although we had to endure the ineptness of a puppet attorney general, Gonzales, the insolence and arrogance of Donald Rumsfeld, and the disastrous, unbridled mistakes of Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle and other right-wing hawks, we can take comfort in fact that Dick Cheney was never able to fully take control over the office of the president.
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