It has never been easy for wartime presidents or the soldiers who fought for them and their country in times of need. It claimed the lives of many presidents: Lincoln, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and President Johnson after Kennedy was assassinated which also might have been a wartime assassination because of the Bay of Pigs and the Cuban Missile Crisis.
In Reagan we had a people person that the world loved. In Clinton we had a very brilliant and public man who led us into prosperity and an international positive view of the United States that was unparalleled since President Kennedy and Reagan.
Bush's Presidency will always be defined by 9-11. Bush will be seen as the western world leader that truly drew a line in the sand and said "Thus far and no further." What will come next is anyone's guess. How efficiently this was done will be debated for decades to come.
However, just after 9-11 I predicted as a psychic that Bush would be seen when leaving office as similar to President Truman who dropped the two A-bombs and firebombed Japan's cities killing millions of civilians in order to end World War II. Though Americans were happy to end the war only losing 900,000 Americans, they were embarrassed to have had to kill so many Japanese in order to end the war in the face of Kamikaze suicide warriors. However, the Japanese finally gave up in desperation in order that their whole nation wasn't rendered extinct by Truman.
Likewise, many things have been done by the United States that it wouldn't have normally done when it perceived its way of life facing extinction. Our way of life these days is facing extinction again from the price of oil and food and from Global Climate change. But that will be the job of the next president to solve.
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