I think the ultimate lesson of the Bush years will end up being something along the lines of: moral clarity is something very easy to acquire, but hard choices are not quite as easy to make.

I guess you could say "talk is cheap" or something like that if you preferred brevity. I'm sure there is a lesson about leaders and ignorance and intellectual curiousity in there as well.

Hilzoy makes good reading too.

Here's the video, just in case anyone wants to make apologies for Bush.
You Tube video after the jump.