As the New York Times reports further steps in the way of the US countering what some of us refer to, simple-mindedly, as 'terrorism', Rupert Cornwell notes a number of continuities between the foreign policy of Barack Obama and that of George W. Bush. For many people of a certain outlook Bush's foreign policy was so bad that one has to wonder whether these continuities will mean the badness rubbing off on President Obama. At the same time, for many people of the very same outlook Obama is so good that maybe some of his goodness will now be rubbing off on Bush's foreign policy.
No, come to think of it, I guess not. Badness is badness and goodness is goodness, and don't you go messing with their picture of the world.