"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: "

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"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:

Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!"

Nothing beside remains: round the decay

Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,

The lone and level sands stretch far away.

- Percy Bysshe Shelley


Wonderful Perspective piece from the Sunday paper.

http://www.sptimes.com/2006/03/12/Columns/A_hollow__failed_pres.shtml

A hollow, failed presidency

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By ROBYN E. BLUMNER, Times Perspective Columnist
Published March 12, 2006

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Like a modern day Ozymandias, President Bush doesn't know that his legacy has already crumbled, leaving nothing but ruin behind.

Despite the weight of the evidence, Bush hasn't figured out that Iraq is a lost cause. He nods when the vice president confabulates about the insurgency in its "last throes." He nudges people like Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs, onto Sunday talk shows to assure us all how "very, very well" things are going. He should be listening to William F. Buckley Jr., who wrote a Feb. 24 column in the National Review titled "It Didn't Work," in which the fierce conservative argues that Bush's next step is "the acknowledgment of defeat."

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The administration denounces the soft racism evident in the opposition to the Dubai ports deal, but thought nothing of subjecting 5,000 largely Muslim and Arab men to preventive detention in the United States after 9/11, embracing an overt "Arabs are terrorists" racism. To this day, not one of them stands convicted of a terror-related crime.

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Our own Ozymandias has visions of grandeur, but in reality Bush has planted the seeds for a more destabilized world, a more vulnerable America and a nation stripped of its fiscal footing and principled creed. As we look on his works, we will despair indeed.