On Bush

One of Mr. Sullivan's readers emailed him concerning both his and Sullivan's support of Bush and subsequent events. Here's the reader's bottom line:

Andrew Sullivan | The Daily Dish:

"Here's the fundamental problem with Bush: he's not evil, he's certainly not corrupt in the Jack Abramoff sense of the word. I'm sure he lives a life of rectitude compared to many. But he's an incurious man, he's intellectually lazy, and, in the White House, that amounts to moral laziness, which, frankly, amounts to evil. Once Bush makes a decision about something, he never revisits it, because if it was right then, surely it must always be so. Look how he has fostered a culture of torture; clearly, he believes that the ends justify the means — surely a very strange idea for a Christian to hold.

The real problem was, we needed a man of extraordinary abilities and vision after 9/11 and we had George Bush. If you supported him and the invasion of Iraq—well, that's understandable. But if people balked — well that's understandable, too. The mistake you made was thinking that, if the cause was just, the leader must be so, too. But in George Bush, we sent a boy to a man's job, and now we're all paying for that mistake.'"