George W. Bush Personality
For this essay I have chosen one of the most controversial politics in the US history, the 43rd President of the USA George W. Bush. He was one of the most supported and criticized Presidents that lead a country through tough times. While I reckon the thesis that all power comes from the political power and the believe that strategies that aim at glory and honor an absolutely true one, it is interesting is to compare policy that was implemented in different areas by the modern leader George W. Bush to the strategy that was recommended by the leader of the past Nicolo Machiavelli.
Machiavelli is often called an establisher of a modern political science and his work The Prince an instruction for politicians. The first question to be answered by it is about liberality and meanness. While the author after some negotiations comes to the conclusion that a prince "should guard himself, above all things, against being despised and hated, and liberality leads you to both", George W. Bush tried to follow this rule, being adamant and confident in his decisions, even in unpopular ones, as it was with the war in Iraq (Machiavelli, The Prince, ch.XVI). Next, the middle-age Italian historian asks if it is better to be loved or hated. Surprisingly, the US President’s foreign policy is better understood if to consider that Machiavelli stated that "it is impossible for the new prince to avoid imputations in cruelty, owing to new states being full of dangers "(Machiavelli, The Prince, ch. XVII). Bush’s War on Terror and operations in Afghanistan are the part of the firm thoughtful policy and has brought considerable results though he was often accused in atrocities. Next, war is always a controversy and fighting overseas always causes debated with Bush’s operations that were not an exception. They were part of the political strategy aimed strengthening international power of the US. This is what Machiavelli says about it: "having led an enormous army, composed of many various races of men, to fight in foreign lands, no dissensions arose either among them or against the prince, whether in his bad or in his good fortune" (Machiavelli, The Prince, ch. XVII). Finally, according to Machiavelli "princes become great when they overcome the difficulties and obstacles by which they are confronted quality of a good leader" and "nothing makes a prince so much esteemed as great enterprises and setting a fine example". George W. Bush, as all "princes" aimed to gain honor and from this point all his decision he made leading through the difficulties (9/11, Hurricane Katrina, financial crisis) and the examples he set are understandable as a chase for the glory as a country leader (Machiavelli, The Prince, ch. XX).
Overall, though the domestic and foreign policy of George W. Bush office still raises vehement …
