I’m tempted to lower the “Color Code” to either blue or green (Cookie Monster or Oscar the Grouch.)

Reasons:
#1: The “War on Terror” was recently (albeit temporarily) renamed the “Global Struggle Against Violent Extremism”. “GSAVE”. GWOT.

Apparently, Bush (1) still desires the “war” concept and (2) Nobody told him about this goddamned change.

#2: Bush is on vacation. This suggests that all is well everywhere and anywhere. Otherwise, the leader of the Free World would be hard at work, facing the troubles of the day. Eisenhower was often called the “Golfer in Chief” — he generally remembered amiably as floating the US around the crises of the moment. Bush is Eisenhower. What can possibly go wrong while on vacation? (Note: there’s this absolutely fascinating press conference that took place at Bush’s Crawford ranch circa that month-long vacation Bush took in the summer of 2001, basically of reporters asking what the dog was up to and how much fun Bush had removing brush that day. It’s on whitehouse.gov, but I can’t immediately find it.)

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