• Multiple sources attribute this column to Johnson (usually by citing the passage in bold): The Telegraph (London, 2007 and 2010), The Atlantic (2016), and The Washington Post (2019).
[On George W. Bush] What has brought so many folk on to the streets, however, is a much broader case: the President is a cross-eyed Texan warmonger, unelected, inarticulate, who epitomises the arrogance of American foreign policy and who by his violent and ill-thought-out actions in Afghanistan and Iraq has made the world a more dangerous place.
In so far as this may be an accurate representation of the marchers' beliefs, it deserves an answer. Let us dispense with the trivial abuse. The President was duly elected. He cannot help his buzzard-like appearance. Whatever the deficiencies of his syntax, they do not justify the loathing in which he is held.
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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "[On George W. Bush] What has brought so many folk on to the streets, however, is a much broader case: the President is a cross-eyed Texan warmonger, unelected, inarticulate, who epitomises the arrogance of American foreign policy and who by his violent and ill-thought-out actions in Afghanistan and Iraq has made the world a more dangerous place.
In so far as this may be an accurate representation of the marchers' beliefs, it deserves an answer. Let us dispense with the trivial abuse. The President was duly elected. He cannot help his buzzard-like appearance. Whatever the deficiencies of his syntax, they do not justify the loathing in which he is held." in the context of "Unsigned editorial titled "Infantile resentment", The Spectator (22 November 2003), p. 7.
• Multiple sources attribute this column to Johnson (usually by citing the passage in bold): The Telegraph (London, 2007 and 2010), The Atlantic (2016), and The Washington Post (2019)." to mean that wisdom is timeless.
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