(This one’s for Charlie.)

How in the world does someone write an entire column about leaders and institutions that “forget the mission” during the past ten years and never once mention the name George W. Bush?

Ask Peggy Noonan.

Her Wall Street Journal column today features this nut graf:

Maybe the most worrying trend the past 10 years can be found in this phrase: “They forgot the mission.” So many great American institutions—institutions that every day help hold us together—acted as if they had forgotten their mission, forgotten what they were about, what their role and purpose was, what they existed to do.

Peggy in Wonderland goes on to cite examples of a “diminished sense of mission” in journalism, in the Catholic Church, in Congress, on Wall Street. But not G.I. George. Not “Mission Accomplished” Bush.

Was she she asleep throughout the – Name That Decade alert! – Taughts (or Tauts)? Raise your hand if you want somebody to wake her up.