On Being Anti-State, Anti-War, and Anti-Bush

I have a new article about why it's important to be all three, and where the left and right go wrong. I discuss the unfortunate tendency of the left to attack Bush even on the incredibly rare occasions that he's right. A sample:

The left, for its part, still fails to understand the other side of the coin. On the front is the image of the president, on the back is the institution of the state. If Bush is ever immortalized on coin, his denomination will almost surely follow the pattern of all presidential tyrants numismatically eternalized before him. Turning over his image will reveal that of a government building or memorial, made permanent in the metallic disc and representing the state’s impersonal, cold inhumanity whose obfuscation is the role of the chief executive engraved on the flipside.