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Bush “I’m not a racist!” but What Else is His Failure of Empathy

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Last week when Oprah Winfrey interviewed GW Bush he raged once again about being called a racist because of how he handled New Orleans after Katrina.  Oprah gave him the opportunity to understand the other side, even if possible to put himself in the place of those blacks who had been abandoned by their President and their government.  Couldn’t he see how black people could think that he had no concern for them and might be a racist given his failure to respond to their life and death crisis in New Orleans.  His answer was immediate and insistent “No!” The issue was not the victims of Katrina, it was him – front and center.

That is the failure of empathy that underscores his Decision Points and his claims of their success.  He considers his invasion, war against and occupation of Iraq a success which is only possible if one is devoid of empathy for the 1.4 million dead and their families because of that war.  Obama on the other hand fooled many of us, including me, into thinking of him as an empathetic man, a quality that instantly disappeared as soon as the US generals insisted on escalation of the US war in Afghanistan.

Change in the US aggression in the world, it will have to focus at the top where as I show in Unmaking War, Remaking Men, psychopathic leadership reigns.  We not only have to make better decisions about who will hold the office of the President, but dramatically change the rule of this country by CEOs of military industries and the Generals who are sustaining ongoing war.


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