The Last Best Hope
Restoring Conservatism and America's Promise
1Increasing military power through restraint
Avoiding an Earthly Hell
We must be judicious in our use of the military. We will fight only when it is in the vital interests of the United States, when our mission is clear, and when the exit strategy is obvious.
—Governor George W. Bush
The morning after George W. Bush made his farewell address to the nation, few media outlets took note of it. In fact, the only national paper to mention the 43rd president’s final speech on its front page was USA Today, and it confined the story to a small box that described another article hidden inside.
America’s newspapers were focused instead that morning on an airplane that had been taken down from the skies over Manhattan.
TV crews dutifully rushed to the crash site and almost immediately began warning Americans of a grave new danger that would threaten the safety of air travelers for years to come.
Tom Costello of NBC News told Morning Joe viewers that government officials were working furiously to address the problem and that the cri ...
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