Bush wasn't barbaric, and no it doesn't. Barbarism isn't eradicated with more barbarism, it's eradicated with the respect for our universal, indivisible human rights. The Aztecs, and some of the North American Indian tribes were barbaric, it took Europeans who respected our rights to uproot barbarism from the Americas. Barbarism in the Paleoamerican peoples ("redskins" e.g.) was a plague. Europeans largely ended it. But the spirit of barbarism and savagery obviously lives on in this world, with every school shooting, with every massacre, with every wanton killing, with every disfiguring torture and rape, the savages who live among us make their presence known. What you need when you've a savage or a barbarian on your hands, is guns. And, plenty of em.