Apparently the Bush presidency, in particular the war in Iraq in which almost three thousand Americans have died, alongside hundreds of thousands of Iraqis, is just one big reality TV show starring George W. Bush. So says David Ignatius:

What makes reality TV gripping is that it’s all happening live — the contestants make their choices under pressure, win or lose. So too with Bush. He is making a vast wager — of American lives, treasure and the nation’s security — that his judgments about Iraq were right. The Baker-Hamilton report gave him a chance to take some chips off the table, but Bush doesn’t seem interested. He is still playing to win. The audience is shouting out advice, but the man under the spotlight knows he will have to make this decision alone.

This is sickening. Bush is not a TV character. Iraq is not a game. This is real life and Ignatius’s insensitive attitudes and fetishization of The Decider is what has enabled hundreds of thousands of lives to be destroyed by this president. Ignatius’s is trivializing the loss of American lives overseas and here at home (Katrina, 9/11), as well as Iraqi and Afghani lives in their home countries in part of a pathetic effort to justify Bush’s continued failures to lead our country to peace. At long last, sir, have you no shame?

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