Immigration Endgame

PRESIDENT BUSH is facing a number of endgames in the next few weeks and months. His principal endgame is slightly farther out-namely, the end of his presidency. But that is causing him to seek, somewhat desperately, to construct a praiseworthy “legacy” by which to warm himself during the long winter of retirement.

What he would most like, presumably, is the success of the surge in Iraq. Iraq is the central issue of his presidency-and the second endgame in sight. If his intervention there is thought to have failed, that failure will overwhelm any other success he might achieve. At present the surge shows signs of beginning to succeed.

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John O’Sullivan

John O’Sullivan is a senior fellow at National Review Institute and a contributing editor of National Review.

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PRESIDENT BUSH is facing a number of endgames in the next few weeks and months. His principal endgame is slightly farther out-namely, the end of his presidency. But that is causing him to seek, somewhat desperately, to construct a praiseworthy “legacy” by which to warm himself during the long winter of retirement.

What he would most like, presumably, is the success of the surge in Iraq. Iraq is the central issue of his presidency-and the second endgame in sight. If his intervention there is thought to have failed, that failure will overwhelm any other success he might achieve. At present the surge shows signs of beginning to succeed.