"We should admit we made a mistake I would never have made had I known, that which I was unable to know until the mistake was made. See? So what we have to do is plead with Europe to help us fix our mistake. And if they help us a little bit, we can win a little bit. Then we can back out of the war and everybody in Europe will still like us.
There!!!
On the money. Never ceases to amaze me how FReepers can edit things down to the basics and distill the essence of a 47-minute acceptance speech (Kerry's, of course) down to just one paragraph. Kudos.