The War President Bush Stopped

The American Conservative's Scott McConnell on the ex-president's "rejection of an Israeli request for overflight permission and perhaps military assistance in bombing Iran’s nuclear reactor," about which there has "been very little about this in the mainstream press" — Bush’s good deed.

Mr. McConnell calls this "the kind of major incident that history often turns on." The history of in the Bush Administration, particularly of the conflict between neoconservatives and realists with "The Decider" in the middle, when written, will be very interesting. Perhaps it would be best written as an opera, à la Nixon In China, or more appropriately as a rocke opera à la Tommy (1975).