Of course, it may be a comforting notion,  despite being rejected by your contemporaries, that history will judge you more kindly.  But the analogy strains to the breaking point.

Where is Bush’s Marshall Plan?  Does wasting aid in Afghanistan only to see it crumble again count?

Sure Korea is divided to this day and the Korean War definitely didn’t go as well as planned, but I have a feeling that Baghdad and Iraq will be very different in 50 years compared with Seoul and South Korea today.  I doubt that in 50 years Americans could safely and freely travel to Baghdad in 2059.

The Truman Doctrine was in place for 40 years.  The Bush Doctrine  won’t even be in place for the next administration because it was such a disaster in Iraq (I agree with Charlie Gibson that it means preemptive war…even though there is some confusion on this point, and some claim that the Bush Doctrine means  not letting a country harbor terrorist and overthrowing them, but this isn’t necessarily a new idea, just a new situation for instigating regime change, which isn’t Bush-specific).

And if the PATRIOT Act and the creation of the Department of Homeland Security count as key accomplishments, not even history can save you.