January 11, 2007
Bush's Speech, Insta-Analysis
No sale, I'm afraid. The "surge" isn't large enough even if one were open to bolstering our forces in theater (it will be interesting to see if Kagan types admit this, or instead hide behind the play pretend of Iraqi troops/police to be paired with U.S. forces), nor did I see any serious reckoning w/r/t the overall regional situation. He's still mostly in denial, spouting platitudes. In short, not a serious speech. Did it really take months to come up with this? More soon.
Posted by Gregory at January 11, 2007 02:36 AM
The most amusing reaction to the speech is Hewitt's -- not for his own sad puffery, but for the fact that so far all the commenters are either telling him or Bush to jump in a lake. With friends like these...
Did it really take months to come up with this?
I'm pretty much the last person who has a good thing to say about the Idiot Prince, but -- what else could he do? A resignation speech would have been my preference, but....
SGlover,
A resignation speech would be good, as long as Darth Vader goes with him.
When wishing to sound like a member of the military, spell it "theatre".
