Amusing, no? that she goes over the top in her critique of Bush's speech supposedly going over the top?
I agree with you, MEG; Bush made a thoughtful, determined, historic break with the past in this speech, wherein he makes our security and our idealism one and the same. Now it is not our policy to ignore the cancer of humanity in chains, while we prate on and bleed in wars about "security" alone, because our security is harmed by such, and because it is morally wrong to do so.
All he really did was recognize and highlight THE TRUTH of what goes on in this world, and his determination to deal with it on that truthful basis.
I heard her initial reaction, and she seemed sold that this was America at its most traditionally optimistic best. She said Europeans say there's nothing we can do about the way of things in the world, while America always says, yes, maybe there is.
Something happened, in between there, perhaps to tick her off.
Whatever it was, no excuses, her piece is bunk. Coming from me, someone who has admired most of her efforts in the past.
http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110006185
Liberty Bell Ringer
An idealistic Bush puts dictators on notice.
A different view