Bush: Global Reviews

Jeff Taylor | January 21, 2005

Interesting rundown on world reax to George Bush's inauguration speech, including a take from the People's Daily which helpfully explains the source of America's nationalism.

Evidently, "the nation's superior natural and geographical conditions, and its history of never being invaded, American nationalism is void of historical bitterness found in typical nationalism of some other peoples." Except for being wrong, that sounds like a compliment. I think.

The War of 1812 featured the British thumping plenty of America cities and that whole Civil War thing had quite a few invading armies rampaging around. And don't forget that a major chunk of the Texas-sized nationalism of GWB has Santa Ana's march on the Alamo at its heart.