DAVID BROOKS IN THE LONDON TIMES



Bush's "certainty" alarms his critiques, who would rather pontificate at length on the current Crisis in Iraq (cue dramatic CNN bumper music):

The United States is in the midst of the certainty crisis. Time magazine is disturbed by �The blinding glare of his certainty�, as one headline referred to Bush�s unwillingness to go wobbly on Iraq. �A questionable certainty� was the headline in the Los Angeles Times. �This kind of certainty worries Bush�s critics,� noted US News and World Report. �Moral certainty, for the most part, is a luxury of a closed mind,� observed William Lesher, a Lutheran school of theology professor, who presumably preserves a subtle open-mindedness about the Holocaust and other such matters.

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